Another Zionism, Another Judaism · The Unrequrited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis

A timely, deeply personal biography of a Jewish leader whose questions for Israel have come back to haunt us with a vengeance.Born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, in 1869, Marcus Ehrenpreis was the secretary of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress in Baselin 1897, a grand rabbi of Bulgaria during two Balkan wars, a diplomat in defense of Europes minorities, a Swedishauthorcompared to Joseph Conrad, the chief rabbi of one of Europes few unscathed Jewish communities through the Nazi era. More than a biography of a man's life and work, this book is a literary journey by award-winning Swedish Jewish writer and public intellectual Gran Rosenberg (A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz), in search of that European Jewish world of meaning and hope that Ehrenpreis so clearly embodied, so vividly articulated, and so relentlessly worked to explain, defend, and salvage from his pulpit in Stockholm. His lifelong dream was to build...