Heshel's Kingdom  -  Dan Jacobson

A family, a people, a divided fate

KORTE INHOUD

In 1919 Heshel Melamed, a rabbi in the small provincial Lithuanian town of Varniai, presented his wife and their nine children with his greatest and most unexpected gift: at the age of fifty-three he died, suddenly, of a heart attack. Heshel’s widow, children and grandchildren were thus set free to establish themselves safely seven thousand miles away in South Africa. As a result, they were spared the Nazi invasion and the tidal wave of killing that was to engulf virtually the entire Jewish population of Li...
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Uitgever: Hamish Hamilton 256 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0241139279 ISBN-13: 9780241139271