East of time / Jacob G. Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Yaakov ben Gershon, 1922-2008, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosenberg, Yaakov ben Gershon, 1922-2008--Childhood and youth.

Rosenberg, Yaakov ben Gershon.

Jews--Poland--Łód--Biography.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łód--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Łód--Biography.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Łódź (Poland)--Biography.

Łódź (Poland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Blackheath, N.S.W.] : Brandl & Schlesinger, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A rendezvous of history and imagination, of realities and dreams, hopes and disenchantments. The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the years of the author's childhood, when he witnessed the cataclysmic events of the 1930s, imprisoned between walls of ghettos, and finally silenced in Auschwitz.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; Bona Fides; My Father; My Mother; An Incident; My Sister Pola; My Sister Ida; Legends; Phantasm; My First Poem; Awakening; The Violin; Juda and the French Revolution; Revolt; Bible and Bund; Zev the Stor yteller; Yiddish Rhapsody; Readers; Comrade Tsap; The Social Worker; The Dream of a Fool; Natasha's Fire; Nemesis; A Deadly Dance; The Assimilator; The Philosopher; Yankl Bolshevik; Sport; The Improviser; Star-crossed Lovers; Interrupted Song; The Melamed; The Legend; As the Days Darkened; A Social Function; The Assistant; Miscarried Revolution; Summer Camp; Traumas

KarinkaThe Climb; Chessgame; A Scandal; On the Slope; Hotza-tza; A Chat; The Spaniard; The Last Summer; Patch of Light; The Sun in My Mother's Song; Initiation; Beginning; Snow in the Window; Kaddish for a Bantamweight; A Song of Books; To Immortalize a Beggar; The Yellow Sniper; Yonas Lerer; Pantomime; Puppet State; Missed Curfew; Those Incredible Believers; Anna; Across the Wire; The Chosen; Herman Hecht; Lipek's Irony; Promise; My Uncle's Jacket; Inner Freedom; Linguistics; Suicide; Give Me Your Children!; The Pyramid; Mercy; History Lesson; Metamorphosis; Riddles; The Absence

Rabbi ChaskeleElegy for a Little House; Holy Lies; My Aunt's Candlesticks; Surreal; Family Friends; Red Rebecca; Sparks in the Dark; The Merchant in Ghetto; Vestibule; Mythology; Why We Didn't Rise; The Law at Work; Honeymoon; A Reading; Yiddish Lullaby; Ghet to Poets; Enigmas; Purim; Anniversary; Confession; The Logic of Water; Dream; Final Departure

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-921556-60-9

1-921556-59-5