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1 online resource (128 pages) |
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Summary |
This memoir is a fascinating portrait of mother and child who miraculously survive two concentration camps, then, after the war, battle demons of the past, societal rejection, disbelief, and invalidation as they struggle to reenter the world of the living. It is the tale of how one newly takes on the world, having lived in the midst of corpses strewn about in the scores of thousands, and how one can possibly resume life in the aftermath of such experiences. It is the story of the child who decides, upon growing up, that the only career that makes sense for him in light of these years of horror is to become someone sensitive to the deepest flaws of humanity, a teacher of God's role in history amidst the traditions that attempt to understand it and to become a rabbi. Readers will not emerge unscathed from this searing work, written by a distinguished, Boston-based rabbi and academic. |
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Print version record. |
Subject |
Polak, Joseph, 1942-
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Polak, Joseph, 1942- -- Philosophy.
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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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Westerbork (Concentration camp)
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Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Hague -- Personal narratives.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands -- Hague -- Biography.
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Jews -- Netherlands -- Hague -- Biography.
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Mother and child -- Netherlands -- Hague -- Biography.
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Rabbis -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Other version: Polak, Joseph, 1942- After the Holocaust the bells still ring. Jerusalem : Urim Publications, 2014. 9789655241624 (hardcover : alkaline paper) (DLC)2014031046 |
Standard No. |
9789655242256 |
ISBN |
9789655242256 (e-pub) |
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