Chapter 4. Planting Roots

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue ix
5. Chapter 1. From Torah to Tennyson 1
6. Chapter 2. Being Jewish in Jamaica 11
7. Chapter 3. Little Jerusalem 19
8. Chapter 4. Planting Roots 27
9. Chapter 5. The Storm and Its Impact 39
10. Chapter 6. From Health to Horror 47
11. Chapter 7. “Through the Gateway of Galveston” 57
12. Chapter 8. “Dear Graduates”: On Being a Rabbi 67
13. Chapter 9. From the Kaiser to the Klan 79
14. Chapter 10. Prison Reform: The Rabbi and the Convict 87
15. Chapter 11. Family Matters and Memory: 1930–1950 97
16. Chapter 12. The Rabbi and His Times 113
17. Appendix: Selected Poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen 123
18. Notes 129
19. Glossary 137
20. Bibliography 143
21. Index 147