Walking with the light : from Frankfurt to Finchley / Jonathan Wittenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wittenberg, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Quartet, 2013.

Summary:

My idea had never been simply to walk along the Rhine with the dog as if the two of us were on some rambling adventure à deux. I wanted to engage not only with the Jewish past but with its present, and with Christian and Muslim communities as well. The essential issue was light, political as well as spiritual: where did the light reside, both in society and in the individual human being? What brought moral darkness and what fostered spiritual and ethical illumination? Book jacket.

Contents:

Last-Minute Preparations 10

Day 1 In Frankfurt: Lighting the Torch 23

Day 2 From Frankfurt to Mainz 44

Day 3 From Mainz to Bingen 59

Day 4 From Bingen to Bacharach, and back to Frankfurt 70

Day 5 From Bacharach to St Goar 87

Day 6 From Koblenz to Saffig 103

Shabbat in Koblenz 113

Day 8 From Maria Laach to Remagen 124

Day 9 From Remagen to Bonn 134

Day 10 From Bonn to Cologne 146

Day 11 In Wuppeital 164

Day 12 From Wuppertal to Imshausen 182

Day 13 From Imshausen Back to Cologne 194

Shabbat in Cologne 202

Day 15 From Cologne to Duisburg 214

Day 16 From Duisburg to Kleve 231

Day 17 Across the Border into Holland 242

Day 18 From Lochem to Amsterdam 258

Day 19 To Rotterdam and Hoek van Holland 269

Day 20 Back to London and Shabbat at Home 279

Day 22 From Liverpool Street Station to the Synagogue 284.

ISBN:

0704372797

9780704372795

OCLC:

828076965

Publisher Number:

99953264036