FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE USA, I WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE AT BUYER'S EXPENSE 1985 FIRST EDITION IN LAIMENE HAIZER BY YEHUDA ELBERG IN LAIMENE HAIZER (IN CLAY HOUSES) A NOVEL VOLUME I About the Author: Yehuda Elberg 1912-2003 Born in Zgierz, Poland, in 1912, Elberg became a rabbi but primarily focused his energies on writing. He published his first short story in 1932 and went on to write for several Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers. During the Holocaust, Elberg was actively involved with both the Lodz and Warsaw resistance movements, setting up safe houses and managing to avoid deportation to a concentration camp. Toward the end of the war, he got military accreditation to trail the American military as a correspondent and, according to his son Nathan, wore an American military uniform. Most of his stories written during the war were lost. After the war, he lived in Paris and became close friends with the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, who pushed Elberg to continue working. ?One day [Grade] came in to me and said, ?Why aren?t you writing?? in a fatherly tone,? Elberg told the Forward in 2002, explaining how Grade had nurtured him ?like a brother or father.? A committed Zionist, Elberg worked in New York after World War II, helping Jewish refugees immigrate to Palestine. He married Tahilla Feinerman, also a Zionist, who died in 1955. He relocated the following year to Montreal, where he remained for the rest of his life with his second wife, Shaindle Stipelman Bloomstone, who died in 1987. In his adopted city of Montreal, Elberg became a prolific writer and published many of his stories in literary journals. Rabbi and scholar, textile engineer, resistance fighter, collector, lecturer and journalist: just a sampling of the work of renowned novelist Yehuda Elberg. Born into a prominent rabbinical family in Zgierz, Poland, Elberg's life experiences during the Holocaust lend heavily to his writing. He was a partisan during World War II, hiding in the forests outside Warsaw and assisting others in escaping the Jewish ghetto. Immediately after the War, Elberg was active in the leadership of the Polish Jewish community while also acting as a journalist and organizing a Writers' Union, an historical institute and the first Yiddish newspaper in Poland, Dos Naye Lebn. He arrived in Montreal in 1956 after working for periods in Paris and then New York. Elberg's writing career began in 1932 with the publication of his first short story in the Yiddish journal Nayer Folksblat. He continued writing essays and stories for Yiddish periodicals around the world as well as publishing collections of these short stories, novelettes and a total of eighteen novels. His stories are pieces of cultural memory of Jewish life in the inter-war years, during the Holocaust and in the search for a new home, much of which is drawn from personal experiences. Long lauded among Yiddish readers, Elberg's work was also translated into English, French and Spanish and now resonates with readers around the world. In 1997, two of his most well know novels, Empire of Kalman the Cripple and Ship of the Hunted, were translated from Yiddish into English and in 2001, L'Empire de Kalman l'infirme was translated into French. Award-winning Yiddish author Yehuda Elberg died in his sleep in Montreal on October 18, 2003. He was 91. TEXT IN YIDDISH TITLE IN ROMAN *LIKE NEW CONDITION* THE BOOK COVER HAS MINIMAL SHELF WEAR BACK OF BOOK COVER IS BUMPED ON THE TOP CORNER, APART FROM THAT THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION THE BOOK HAS NORMAL SHELF WEAR PUBLISHED BY ISRAEL PUBLISHING HOUSE 1985 319 PAGES ILLUSTRATED SEE OUR OTHER BOOKS IN OUR STORE! Check out my other items! 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