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| Genre/Form: | Autobiographie Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gold, Ben-Zion. Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)1002182605 |
| Named Person: | Ben-Zion Gold; Ben-Zion Gold |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ben-Zion Gold |
| ISBN: | 9780803222229 080322222X |
| OCLC Number: | 68693801 |
| Description: | xi, 152 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Jewish Radom -- Home and family -- My father's marriage and business -- My religious upbringing -- Heder -- My sisters' education -- Yeshiva -- Jews and Poles -- Rayzel's engagement -- Pinye's death -- Finding a tutor -- The Beit hamidrash and the Yeshiva -- Encounters with Hasidism -- Musarnikes -- Bathya's engagement -- Love's first glance -- Escape to freedom -- The encounter -- After liberation. |
| Responsibility: | Ben-Zion Gold. |
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"This book is quite different in character from existing Holocaust memoirs. It is an eyewitness account of a lost milieu and it tells us, as the saying goes, not how European Jews died but how they lived."-Robert Alter, professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary -- Robert Alter "This beautifully written and moving account of his youth as a member of a traditional religious Jewish family in Radom in central Poland, by Ben-Zion Gold, stands out among Holocaust memoirs. Gold lovingly recreates this destroyed world and attempts to convey its deep spirituality, while distancing himself from its fundamentalism and ethnic self-centeredness. This is one of the most uplifting accounts of the resilience of the human spirit I have read in recent years."-Antony Polonsky, Walter Stern Hilborn Professor of Judaic and Social Studies at Brandeis University and coeditor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology -- Antony Polonsky "In this moving memoir, Ben-Zion Gold describes how Jews lived in Poland, and not how they died... It took Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold 20 years to complete his spare, powerful memoir, which originated as a message to his daughters, both of them born in the United States after World War II... Poignant as each individual memory may be, taken together they attest to the wide range of religious experiences that Polish Judaism in full flower provided for an ardent, intelligent seeker like young Gold."-Harvey Blume, Jerusalem Report Jerusalem Report "Ben-Zion Gold's memoir of pre-Holocaust life in Poland is on the right track."-Aaron Howard, Jewish Herald-Voice Jewish Herald-Voice "When my colleague, Rabbi Harold Kushner, visited the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, he said: This place describes how the Jews died better than any other place that I have ever seen. Now we need to have a second museum, one that will tell the story of how the Jews lived. If such a museum is ever built, this book will deserve an honored place within it. For Ben-Zion Gold has told the story of the world of Polish Jewry between the wars, as reflected in his own life, with insight and grace... This is a wonderful memoir, and I learned much from it."-Rabbi Jack Riemer, Jewish Journal: L'Chaim Jewish Journal: L'Chaim "A memoir by Ben-Zion Gold of life among a million Jews in pre-war Poland. His recollections are rendered all the more poignant for Gold, now 90 and living in the USA, being the only survivor of his family."-Jewish Chronicle Jewish Chronicle Read more...
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- Gold, Ben-Zion.
- Jews -- Poland -- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie) -- Biography.
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- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) -- Biography.
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- Poland -- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
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