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  • Lament for a Father

  • The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness
  • Written by: Marvin Olasky
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins

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Lament for a Father

Written by: Marvin Olasky
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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Marvin played catch with his father, Eli, only once—it didn't 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 father's past in his most personal work to date—facing Eli's 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 cuts"—and discovering what he owes to his parents.

©2021 Marvin Olasky (P)2022 eChristian
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