Pathways depicts the author's life, with the inclusion of photographs and original prose pieces inspired by his experiences, including his escape from the Holocaust and Nazi Germany at age 7 with his parents and sister; assimilation into America's midwest in the 1940s; violin studies and postwar experiences in New York City and the Air Force; careers in New York and Europe as a college professor and violinist; and survival of a stroke. Interjected between narrative accounts of the author's existence are imaginative and strange tales illustrating his vision.