- Summary
- "This 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 ninety years of life, his story takes the reader through three continents, two marriages, and one Holocaust. At the same time, it is also the story of much of the Jewish people during the twentieth century, or at least those 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 United States after the Second World War including in far-flung areas such as Montana and South Dakota, and finally, the events in Israel following the Yom Kippur War and up to and including the first Intifada (1987). This a book of Jewish survival and triumph chronicling the transformation and rebirth not only of one man but of an entire Jewish world."--Publisher's description.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959-
- Published
- Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2009
- Locale
- Poland
Bochnia
Israel
United States
- Contents
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Bochnia, 1903-1914
Munich, 1914-1920
Frankfurt-Lodz-Bochnia-Frankfurt, 1920-1939
Buchenwald-Auschwitz-Buchenwald, 1939-1945
Geringshof, 1945
Jerusalem-Tel Aviv, 1945-1951
New York, 1951-1957
Rapid City, South Dakota and Deer Lodge, Montana, 1958-1959
New York, 1959-1974
Ramat Gan-Givatayim, 1974-1993.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bochnia, 1903-1914 -- Munich, 1914-1920 -- Frankfurt-Lodz-Bochnia-Frankfurt, 1920-1939 -- Buchenwald-Auschwitz-Buchenwald, 1939-1945 -- Geringshof, 1945 -- Jerusalem-Tel Aviv, 1945-1951 -- New York, 1951-1957 -- Rapid City, South Dakota and Deer Lodge, Montana, 1958-1959 -- New York, 1959-1974 -- Ramat Gan-Givatayim, 1974-1993.
