Looking Back: (ePub)
This book is centered around the memoir Looking Back, written in 1928 by 20 year old Isadore Weiss, only six years after coming to the United States. Isadore provides a fascinating insight into Jewish life in the Ukrainian village of Minkovitz before,...
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This book is centered around the memoir Looking Back, written in 1928 by 20 year old Isadore Weiss, only six years after coming to the United States. Isadore provides a fascinating insight into Jewish life in the Ukrainian village of Minkovitz before, during and after World War One. As the war reaches Minkovitz, the reader experiences the rare insight of the communitys reaction to the fighting, the first cars, first motorcycles and first airplanes ever seen by people in that region. Contrary to popular current thought, we also see the excellent relationship between the Jewish community of Minkovitz and the German occupying troops, who made toys and gathered firewood for the homes of the people where they were housed during the winter. Isadore also recounts the artillery and the hand-to-hand combat between the forces of Simon Petlura, leader of the pogroms, and the Bolsheviks. We get to see how the new Communist regime establishes itself in Ukraine. Isadores wife, Sylvia, rounds out the story of how they built a life together in the United States. The story continues of how Isadore graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh, and then worked as a Federal investigator as he overcame the barriers of a new language and anti-Semitism. Contributing authors provide background on the contemporary social, demographic and political environment in Ukraine to help the reader put Looking Back into context.
as Chapter 1 of the book in exactly the same, unedited form as he wrote
it in 1928. After coming to the U.S., he graduated with honors from the
University of Pittsburgh, became a Federal investigator and played a
major role in the investigation and prosecution of the Salad Oil fraud
in Bayonne, NJ. Despite extensive traveling for his Civil Service work,
he managed to participate in civic and volunteer work in the several
locations where he lived and he was a proud and devoted father and husband. Sylvia Weiss, Isadore's wife was an at-home mother, active in the PTA, Scouting, League of Women Voters, and fund-raising for various charitable and civic organizations. Later, she started the Senior Citizen program in her town, and served as councilwoman in East
Windsor, N.J. and on the National Board of Elderhostel. In recognition
of her, the Mayor of East Windsor established an annual award in her
name. Dr. Eamon Doherty is a tenured professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and studied Russian History with Dr. Alan Ball at Marquette University and provides commentary throughout the book to tie much of the material together. Contributing authors Todd Liebesfeld, J.D., and Joel Liebesfeld provide well documented research on anti-Semitism in Ukraine. William "Pat" Schuber describes the political upheaval in
Russia from 1914-1923, and Lew Meixler supplies geographic, social and
demographic information about the Ukranian town and region where Isadore and his family lived.
- Autor: Isadore Weiss
- 2009, 168 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1449027172
- ISBN-13: 9781449027179
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2009
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 4.17 MB
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