My Eccentric Family

Norman Cantor is Professor of Law Emeritus at Rutgers University School of Law, Newark.

Professor Cantor's 2020 memoir is "My Eccentric Family: Memories from a Communist, Mafioso, Zionist Past." It recounts the complexities of growing up with unusual careerists as parents - his father, a dedicated Communist leader who accumulated a 900 page FBI file, and his mother, a pioneering lawyer promoting minority and civil rights who gained prominence despite the misogynist atmosphere she faced The memoir also chronicles Cantor's own deep involvement in the Death with Dignity movement, as well as his experience as a liberal Zionist living in Israel.