My Eccentric Family: Memories of a Communist, Mafioso, Zionist Past

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By Norman L. Cantor ’64

Published June 7, 2021

Cantor recounts the complexities of his childhood living with his father, a longtime Communist leader, and his mother, a pioneering civil rights lawyer. In the wide-ranging memoir, he also writes of his involvement in the Death with Dignity movement, his time spent as a liberal Zionist in Israel, and of exciting encounters with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.

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