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A Typical Extraordinary Jew : From Tarnow to Jerusalem, Paperback / softback Book

A Typical Extraordinary Jew : From Tarnow to Jerusalem Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This book tells the life story of an extremely engaging and charming Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic historical events that shaped Jewish experiences in the twentieth century.

The story is told largely in Shmuel's own Yiddish- inflected Australian English to two avid listeners: Calvin Goldscheider, a social scientist, and Jeffrey M.

Green, a writer and translator. Both the Holocaust and Shmuel's harrowing experience as a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia figure prominently in this book, but Shmuel also describes his community of Tarnow, a town in southeastern Poland, in rich detail.

After World War II, Shmuel settled in Melbourne, Australia before eventually immigrating to Israel.

Shmuel was lively, colorful, entertaining, deeply concerned about other people, and a devoted and kind family man.

The book is true to Shmuel's spirit and shares the life of a man whom everyone fondly remembers as a typical extraordinary Jew.

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