Let There Be Light

About the Book

Five chilren, one girl and four boys, are born to Annie and Isaac. Little by little the Freedland children glean from their parents' peculiariies that they are different from their nieghbors. Pa takes live chickens to the city for ritual slaughtering. Alone, among teir multi-ethic nieghbors, the entire family speaks Yiddish. The spinster schoolteacher, Miss Quello, admonishes Ma and Pa for denying their children their heritage.

About the Author

Max Freedland, is the founding president of Senior University at California State University, Long Beach. He teaches A Novel Approach to Memoir Writing there, and also at University of California, Irvine. Mr. Freedland lives with his bride of sixty-three years in LongBeach.