“Uncovering Hidden Truths: Caroline Topperman Reveals the Secrets Behind ‘Your Roots Cast a Shadow'”
The writing of this book also cleared up a lot of things. My mother and my uncle found out on the schoolyard that they were Jewish. When she was a teenager, my mom was dragged into an abandoned building by two boys and almost killed because she was wearing a Star of David. I can’t even imagine that. My grandparents had to walk past public signs that read, “Jews go back to Palestine!” I grew up in a very Jewish area North of Toronto, but we didn’t participate in religious life. My cousins had bar and bat mitzvahs, but my mom’s approach was, we’re just not going to do that, but this is where you come from. It was so deep in our bones who we were as people.
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