{"product_id":"bitternes-and-salvation","title":"Bitternes and Salvation","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathan’s Bitterness and Salvation Nathan is a young, impressionable boy who is saved from the Nazis by Catholic gentiles in his homeland, Holland. But in order to survive he must learn to be a good Catholic and undergo baptism. From there it is only a small leap to begin his studies in the Catholic priesthood. By the time he is fifteen, Nathan learns of his parent’s conversion to Catholicism. While studying to be a priest, Nathan confronts a notorious Jew-hating priest and realizes that he cannot represent a religion nurtured from the seeds of anti-Semitism. After his father’s death he leaves the Catholic boarding school to fulfil his army duty and then begins the study of law.Becoming a member of the Dutch Zionist Students Union helps Nathan further identify with his Jewish roots, and he decides to return to the Jewish tradition. He marries a Jewish woman, but the traumas he has undergone begin to insidiously destroy his ability to love and be loved. When he immigrates to Israel with his wife he makes a momentous decision: he will take on the obligations and practices of an Orthodox Jew. This is a true story of one man's heroic battle for physical survival in the face of Nazi persecution and his never-ending spiritual battle to recapture his soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fred Daniels","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54336686031158,"sku":"9789652297990","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/2092\/2422\/files\/i119839.72288.jpg?v=1785311076","url":"https:\/\/www.gefenpublishing.com\/products\/bitternes-and-salvation","provider":"Gefen Publishing House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}