Lament for a Father: The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness

Marvin played catch with his father, Eli, only onceit didnt end well. Eli never laughed, rarely spoke with his son, and was periodically lambasted by his wife for his lack of ambition. How had a Harvard graduate failed to achieve all that he had once hoped for?

Now an experienced investigative journalist, Marvin Olasky uncovers the true story of his fathers past in his most personal work to datefacing Elis pain and his own in order to understand and forgive. He follows Eli from his Orthodox Jewish childhood in Boston to his days as a commuter student at Harvard to his traumatic experiences in Germany following World War II to his embrace of Reconstructionist Judaism, describing a spiritual and psychological death by one thousand cutsand discovering what he owes to his parents.