In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

In My Brother's Image is the extraordinary story of Eugene Pogany's father and uncle-identical twin brothers born in Hungary of Jewish parents but raised as devout Catholic converts until the Second World War unraveled their family. In eloquent prose, Pogany portrays how the Holocaust destroyed the brothers' close childhood bond: his father, a survivor of a Nazi internment camp, denounced Christianity and returned to the Judaism of his birth, while his uncle, who found shelter in an Italian monastic community during the war, became a Catholic priest. Even after emigrating to America the brothers remained estranged, each believing the other a traitor to their family's faith. This tragic memoir is a rich, moving family portrait as well as an objective historical account of the rupture between Jews and Catholics.

Author: Eugene L. Pogany
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.48w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780141002248

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 03/01/2002 pg. 29

About the Author
Eugene L. Pogany is a practicing psychologist in Boston. A frequent speaker on anti-Semitism and Jewish-Catholic relations, he has written for Cross Currents, Sh'ma, Jewishfamily.com, and the Jewish Advocate.