Three Homelands : Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America Hardback
by Norman Salsitz
Part of the Religion, Theology and the Holocaust series
Hardback
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Compelling recollections of a Jewish boy in a prewar Polish village, of his incredible scramble to survive the Holocaust, and of his adventures in America.
Told with the inimitable flair of a born storyteller, these stories recall the lost world of small-town Polish Jewry before the Holocaust and the subsequent odyssey of one boy's struggle to stay alive in the face of catastrophe.
Brimming with the authenticity and humanity of personal experience, these memoirs are at once persuasive, moving, and universal in appeal.
Packed with rarely divulged details of daily life during the Holocaust, the book provides significant insights into human nature and the roles played by chance and purpose in staying alive.
It is a route of dizzying change. First, author Salsitz, an orthodox Jew, becomes a slave laborer.
Then he becomes an escapee, then a partisan. In the ultimate irony, he passes as a non-Jew, working in Polish security after the war.
In America, Salsitz finds that the very traits that saw him through the war enabled him to prosper in his adopted land.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:468 pages, 61 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2002
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- ISBN:9780815607342
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:468 pages, 61 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815607342
