Lonely But Not Alone: A Spiritual Autobiography

Lonely But Not Alone tells the highly unusual story of Dutch-Israeli Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, a child of an intermarriage between a Christian woman and Jewish man who discovers Judaism in his teens and subsequently undergoes a ritual conversion. Weaving together his history and his novel approach to Judaism borne out of his unconventional experiences, Cardozo tackles the problems of religiosity, doubt, faith, and the holy land of Israel and offers his vision for an improved Judaism. This volume blends Cardozo's personal account, testimony by his mother about concealing his father's family during the Holocaust, seminal essays on Jewish thought, and an interview with the author.