Biography & Autobiography Entertainment & Performing Arts
I Thought He Was Dead
A Spiritual Memoir
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2021
- Category
- Entertainment & Performing Arts, Religious, Jewish
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989496336
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $20.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989496831
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
In this wise and funny memoir Ralph Benmergui, one of Canada’s beloved storytellers, shares his path from resident class clown and the son of Moroccan immigrants to gracing TV screens across Canada and into his third, unexpected, act in Hashpa’ah: Jewish Spiritual Direction. I Thought He Was Dead: A Spiritual Memoir is the perfect book for those looking to reinvent themselves at any time of life and Ralph Benmergui is the best possible guide for the journey.
About the author
Ralph Benmergui is best known as a TV and radio personality. First at the CBC for over twenty years and then at Jazz FM with his show Benmergui in the Morning. Born in Tangiers, Morocco, Ralph and his family arrived in Toronto in the late fifties. Ralph has had an eclectic career. Stand-up comic, singer, national media, then government communications. Executive Advisor to the President at Sheridan College and along the way seeking out and becoming becoming an ordained Spiritual Director.