Eitan Fishbane, Ph.D.
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Selected as a "Best Book of 2011"
by ​Jewish Ideas Daily

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"Gorgeous and poignant..."
--Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss 

"Those who mourn will find kinship in this book; those who seek to comfort them will find wisdom." -- The Star-Ledger

"Stunning . . . Anyone who has lost, anyone who has loved, will identify with the piercing humanity . . . This is a book that changes you forever.  It must."  --Rabbi Sharon Brous, founding rabbi of IKAR

"A painful, but poetic, humane, and deeply spiritual account of dealing with tragedy that will speak to all who suffer bereavement and those who minister to them."  
- Bernard McGinn, Professor Emeritus, The University of Chicago 

"Among the many recent personal narratives of loss and grief, Shadows in Winter stands out... The reader will long remember this beautifully written memoir."  - Linda S. Raphael, The George Washington University School of Medicine


"Powerful, moving and evocative!"  
-- Jonathan Sarna, Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University

"This beautiful book . . . evokes the sweetness of life and unbearable loss with riveting nuance. His impulse to tell the story is the impulse towards healing, and he offers help in the midst of even the darkest tragedy."  - Rabbi Mychal Springer, Director of the Center for Pastoral Education, The Jewish Theological Seminary



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Read an excerpt in The Atlantic


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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