- Summary
- "Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Although these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home, and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy, where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to become citizens of the new nation of Israel. Moshe's Children also explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his work there before the war. With narrative verve and scholarly acumen, Sergio Luzzatto brilliantly tells the gripping stories of these orphans of the Holocaust and the good man who helped point them to a real future"-- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Bambini di Moshe. English
- Series
- Studies in antisemitism
Studies in antisemitism.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Luzzatto, Sergio, 1963- author.
- Published
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
2306
- Locale
- Europe, Eastern
Italy
Selvino
- Contents
-
The Black Box
Far from Where
Yehudit
Close to Where
Anabasis
The Drowned and the Saved
The House of Mussolini
A Republic of Orphans
Life after Death
Kibbutz Selvino?
In Israel's Waters
The Road to Jerusalem
If You Survive.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Luczkiw, Stash, translator.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Black Box-- Far from Where -- Yehudit -- Close to Where -- Anabasis -- The Drowned and the Saved -- The House of Mussolini -- A Republic of Orphans -- Life after Death -- Kibbutz Selvino? -- In Israel's Waters -- The Road to Jerusalem -- If You Survive.
