Let Them Journey: True Stories Uniting the Past with the Future - Hardcover

9789657108840: Let Them Journey: True Stories Uniting the Past with the Future

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9657108845 ISBN 13: 9789657108840

Publisher: Telshestone English Library, 2006

This book illustrates the story of Jewish migration in the last hundred years, from an unusual perspective. There is no faceless narrator sweeping the characters along the tides of history; the stories are told by the people themselves, unaltered and with all the poignancy of memory intact. These people, their lives overshadowed and sometimes obliterated by catastrophic events, relate in their own words what it was like to be a Jew in such a world and under such conditions. The recollections related in this book provide an interesting, enlightening and informative panorama of the varied Jewish experiences in the twentieth century.

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About the Author:

Jennifer Hall is the coeditor of Library in a Book. Pesah Leah Porat is a writer and an editor.

Review:

These chronicles describe in a simple and yet graphic way the everyday life for the people who tell their story. They speak of what they ate, how they slept, what they wore, and how they earned a living. From these stories we get an insight into how the world has changed so dramatically in the last one hundred years. We can perhaps come to appreciate many of the great conveniences that we have now that make life so much easier. These stories can help us appreciate the fact that most of us do not have to live in grinding poverty and fear, as was common for many people throughout our history. --Jewish Tribune

This book is unique, full of flavor, of nostalgia galore, inviting you to step into yestercentury and beyond, and relive the cradle scenes of your grandparents' grandparents, be they from Minsk, Pinsk, Frankfurt, Hungary, India, the South African Transvaal, England or the East Side of New York. Somehow, you identify with these brothers and sisters through their own chronicles, straight from [I almost said 'the horse's mouth,' the one on the cover] the source, spanning a century and a half of five genera�tions. --S. Weinbach, Yated Ne eman

This book should be in every Jewish library. --Dr. David Kranzler, noted author, scholar and Jewish historian.

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