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In late February 2007, Leah Fishbane's life was flourishing. A promising young graduate student in Jewish history, she was an adoring mother to her nearly four-year-old daughter and two months into a new pregnancy. In an instant, all this was gone: Leah was struck down suddenly with a previously undiagnosed brain tumor--her life ended, her family in despair. In this deeply evocative memoir, written during the dark time of the first year following Leah's death, her husband Eitan gives voice to the overwhelming nature of mourning, and to the uplifting power of memory. He tells the story of his efforts to be a good father to his grieving child and of his self-discovery as a parent in ways he had not known before. Along this path, Fishbane asks fundamental questions about the meaning of death and life, about the place of God and faith in the experience of tragedy, about what it means to live with loss. The result is a poetic testament that will resonate with anyone who has known the depths of grief, anyone who seeks to console a loved one in pain. In giving honest expression to emotions that are at once particular and universal, Shadows in Winter offers a luminous window of comfort and hope to those battling the devastation of loss.

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Powerful, moving, and evocative.-- Jonathan Sarna, author of The American Jewish Experience

Equal parts stunning and wrenching--pours vividly and unsparingly from the depths of a broken heart. Every word echoes with anguish, yet this is so much more than a story of loss--it is an unequivocal affirmation of the triumph of love over death. Anyone who has lost, anyone who has loved, will identify with the piercing humanity. One is left feeling called to love more deeply and to live more fully--to grasp every moment of life with gratitude and presence. This is a book that changes you forever. It must.-- Rabbi Sharon Brous, spiritual leader of IKAR and panelist for Newsweek and The Washington Post's On Faith Powerful, moving, and evocative.-- Jonathan Sarna, author of The American Jewish Experience

Powerful, moving, and evocative.--Jonathan Sarna, author of The American Jewish Experience

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Eitan Fishbane is assistant professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, specializing in kabbalah and mysticism. He is the author of As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist and Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections.

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