Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge a generous grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec that facilitated the writing of The Book of Faith.

For kindly sharing parts of their life stories with me, I thank Mary Rona, the late Dr. Stephen Rona, Henry Schaffer, and Linda Schwartz. I am also indebted to Bryan Demchinsky, Jane Lewis, and Monique Polak for reading early versions of the book and for their valuable comments and sustained encouragement. As always, my agent Daphne Hart has been a fount of excellent advice, for which, as always, I am grateful.

A special thank you to Linda Leith for giving Faith a happy home, and for her editorial vision and wisdom.

I am grateful to Rabbi Ron Aigen for all that I have learned from him about the ways of the Jewish heart, and wish to acknowledge that he inspired the best of Nate Kaufman’s divrei Torah.

For helping me keep faith in general, I thank Philip Beck.

For his unwavering belief and trust in me, I am humbled and forever beholden to Archie Fineberg.

Elaine Kalman Naves

Montreal