![]() | ISBN: 978-08419-1382-0 $25.00 | |
1998/166 pages Distributed for Holmes and Meier Publishers |
Zelman's memoir is about loss, but he places more emphasis on the life he found—or made for himself—after he survived the Lodz ghetto and a series of concentration camps as a young teenager. He has been instrumental in rebuilding a Jewish community in Vienna, in the midst of many wartime enemies. As a "public" Jew in Austria, he has walked a political tightrope and has a unique perspective on displacement and postwar politics—and here he relates his experiences with Bruno Kreisky, the World Jewish Congress, and Edgar Bronfman. Having hosted thousands of Jews through the Jewish Welcome Service, he continues to provide a bridge between the Jews (past and present) and new generations of Austrians by teaching and traveling.
"[A] gripping memoir...."—Publishers Weekly