This is a book about Chaskel Tydor; an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor; who was at various times a bookkeeper; metallurgist; kibbutz founder; Hebrew book publisher; uranium mine manager; and travel agent. Spanning close to 90 years of life; his story takes the reader through three continents; two marriages; and the Holocaust. It is also the story of Jewish people during the 20th century who found themselves wandering between countries; learning to function in new languages and societies; building and joining various Jewish communities; and continuously adopting different outward ways of life while trying to maintain their Jewish beliefs and practices. Through the story of one; albeit unique; man; we learn the history of an era: Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the First World War; events in Weimar and Hitler's Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; the struggle for survival in Nazi camps; the creation of the State of Israel; Jewish life in the US after the Second World War; and events in Israel following the Yom Kippur War. This is a book of Jewish survival and triumph; chronicling the transformation and rebirth not only of one man but of an entire Jewish world. Throughout; the book provides substantive "Further Reading" lists and bibliographic information which allows readers to source and compare other scholarship and writings on the places and historical circumstances presented.
#9766431 in Books 2016-10-24Original language:English 8.50 x .80 x 5.51l; #File Name: 1843427842386 pages
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