Ship of the Hunted (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) - Hardcover

Elberg, Yehuda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815604491 ISBN 13: 9780815604495

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This novel recounts the story of one Jewish family's struggle to survive in the squalor of the Warsaw Ghetto--their efforts to find places to hide, and their eventual separation--during the onset of the Holocaust.

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About the Author

Yehuda Elberg (1912–2003), Yiddish journalist and novelist. Born in Zgierz, Poland, Elberg came from a rabbinical family and was ordained as a rabbi. He is the author of several books including The Empire of Kalman the Cripple.

From the Back Cover

This is the story of one family's struggle to survive in the squalor of the Warsaw ghetto during the onset of the Holocaust. Yossel Yurek is a thirteen-year-old Jew whose ingenuity in smuggling goods in and out of his community saved the lives of those dear to him - as well as his own. It is the story of his mother, Golda, who courageously escaped from Treblinka. It is the true story of a family forever torn asunder by war. By January 1943, everyone in Warsaw knew that the deportations of the ghetto residents meant the death of the ghetto inhabitants. After Yurek's older sister was deported, Yurek attempted to find a hiding place for himself and his younger sister, Hannah, while his mother, Golda, remained at home to earn money in order to pay the Polish family who hid her two children. With the power of description that only actual experience can endow, Yehuda Elberg relates the birth, death, and resurrection of a dynasty.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815604491
• ISBN 13: 9780815604495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299