By Ben-Zion Gold
ISBN-10: 0803205643
ISBN-13: 9780803205642
ISBN-10: 080322222X
ISBN-13: 9780803222229
Ben-Zion Gold’s memoir brings to existence the area of 1000000 Jews in pre-World conflict II Poland who have been later destroyed by way of the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold conjures up the feel of kin and religion that helped him throughout the disaster that undefined. With him we adventure the lifestyles and associations of the time: the Heder and hooky enjoying, his stumble upon with Hassidism, the courtship and marriage of his oldest sister, and the author’s personal first inkling of affection. And with him, we recapture the stories that made existence worthy residing within the face of catastrophe, besides the adventure of the human skill for evil that demonstrated and remodeled his religion because it devastated his international. eventually, Gold tells of the destiny of his kin and of his personal get away from that destiny. (20070309)
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I noticed their ingredients and absorbed their aroma. After the war, what I had observed, aided by my acute sense of smell, helped me to reconstruct my mother’s gefilte fish, chicken soup, and chopped liver. Actual preparations for Shabbat began on Thursday morning when my mother went to market to purchase the Shabbat fare: fish, chicken, meat, fruit, and vegetables. I grew up during the depression, and there were times when bread was scarce, but with my mother’s ingenuity we welcomed the Shabbat Queen with a feast.
I would have cried, but I was too proud for that. ” When I came home I told my mother that under no circumstances would I ever return to heder. My mother tried her best to calm me, explaining how she had hoped that I would someday become a talmid chacham (a scholar) and what a disgrace it would be if I were to grow up to be an ignorant man. Her sweet reason was of no avail; I remained adamant in my refusal until my father came home. ” That did it. To my mind’s eye came Yankel the shoemaker, who lived with his wife and three children in a basement apartment in our building.
We traversed Polish streets with our Jewish consciousness. Outside was just another workday, but in our hearts and minds, our homes and places of worship, it was Shab- B N G : A > < > D J H J E7 G > C< > C< bat or Yom-Tov. Our daily, weekly, and annual religious practices influenced each other, creating a complex, fascinating, and multidimensional life that shaped our identity and gave direction and meaning to it. ” As a child I heard my father recite the prayers at dawn on winter mornings. While outside it was bluing and I was still wrapped in sleep, I heard him whisper his prayers, word by word, as if he were counting pearls.
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