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Moshe's children : the orphans of the Holocaust and the birth of Israel / Sergio Luzzatto ; translated by Stash Luczkiw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luzzatto, Sergio, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Studies in antisemitism (Bloomington, Ind.)
- Studies in Antisemitism Series
- Standardized Title:
- Bambini di Moshe. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Zeʻiri, Mosheh.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Europe, Eastern.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Persecutions--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Holocaust survivors--Italy--Selvino.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Europe, Eastern.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Italy--Selvino.
- Jewish orphanages--Italy--Selvino.
- Jewish orphanages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 420 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Luzzatto, Sergio Moshe's Children
- ISBN:
- 9780253065902
- 0253065909
- 9780253065896
- 0253065895
- OCLC:
- 1352871189
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