The Cold Shower of a New Life (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Yad Vashem Publications, 2026
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Hardcover. A touching personal diary of a young artist retuning to life after the Holocaust.These notebooks tell the story of a young survivor exploring his emotional and physical challenges after intense suffering, while discovering his strengths and abilities as he builds a life after the Holocaust. The writings reflect the author's inner dialogue regarding the meaning of his existence, and his conversations, real and imagined, with his lost loved ones, contemporaries, and former fellow camp inmates with whom he shared his darkest hours. In this seventh volume of the series, which includes notebooks 13 and 14, written between July and September 1947, his early years in Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) are reflected. The entries cover his summer vacation, beginning with a stay in Tel Aviv--marked by discomfort with the climate, strained family relations, and criticism of materialism--and continuing with travels to kibbutzim, where he found comfort in nature and human connection.Back in Jerusalem, Bacon describes depressive episodes, financial difficulties, and self-doubt about his artistic development. These notebooks also reveal a deeper awareness of the long-term psychological effects of his Holocaust experiences. He uses the metaphor of a broken violin string to convey the emotional numbness and disconnection he feels. While political unrest in Eretz Israel during 1947 is occasionally mentioned, it is described in a restrained and factual tone. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Cold Shower of a New Life (Hardcover)
- Author
- Yehuda Bacon
- Publisher
- Yad Vashem Publications
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9653087185
- ISBN 13
- 9789653087187
These notebooks tell the story of a young survivor exploring his emotional and physical challenges after intense suffering, while discovering his strengths and abilities as he builds a life after the Holocaust. The writings reflect the author's inner dialogue regarding the meaning of his existence, and his conversations, real and imagined, with his lost loved ones, contemporaries, and former fellow camp inmates with whom he shared his darkest hours. In this seventh volume of the series, which includes notebooks 13 and 14, written between July and September 1947, his early years in Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) are reflected. The entries cover his summer vacation, beginning with a stay in Tel Aviv--marked by discomfort with the climate, strained family relations, and criticism of materialism--and continuing with travels to kibbutzim, where he found comfort in nature and human connection.
Back in Jerusalem, Bacon describes depressive episodes, financial difficulties, and self-doubt about his artistic development. These notebooks also reveal a deeper awareness of the long-term psychological effects of his Holocaust experiences. He uses the metaphor of a broken violin string to convey the emotional numbness and disconnection he feels. While political unrest in Eretz Israel during 1947 is occasionally mentioned, it is described in a restrained and factual tone.
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About the Author
World-renowned Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon began keeping a diary in July 1945, while living in a youth home in Stiřín, Czechoslovakia, shortly after his liberation. During the past seven decades, Bacon has filled over 240 notebooks. His diary is a mosaic of words and drawings through which he remembers his past, contemplates his present, and imagines his future. Bacon was born in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. In 1942, aged thirteen, he was deported with his family to Theresienstadt. In 1943 he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was interned in the family camp; a few months later, he was among a group of teens selected to work as forced laborers. Bacon survived death marches to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen before he was finally liberated, only to discover that his family had been murdered, aside from one sister who had left Czechoslovakia before the war. Upon his return to Czechoslovakia, Bacon lived in a provisionary youth home run by the humanist Přemysl Pitter. In 1946, Bacon immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, later becoming a professor of graphics and drawing and achieving fame as an artist.
Dr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen is the Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Studies and the Director of the Eli and Diana Zborowski Center for the Study of the Holocaust and its Aftermath at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research. She was the former Director of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. She holds a PhD from Hebrew University in the field of Holocaust Studies. She has published numerous articles relating to the postwar lives of Holocaust survivors and rehabilitation after trauma.
Dorota Julia Nowak is a Slavic scholar and a graduate of the Holocaust Studies program at the University of Haifa in Israel. Within Slavic studies, she focuses on Holocaust literature and Jewish issues in general. At Palacký University in the Czech Republic, she lectures on the history of Polish literature and teaches courses on Jewish culture in Poland and Polish feminist thought.
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