Three homelands
| Titel: | Three homelands : memories of a Jewish life in Poland, Israel, and America / Norman Salsitz with Stanley Kaish |
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| Ausgabe: | 1 edition |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Syracuse University Press, 2002 |
| Umfang: | XIX, 345 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0815607342 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Illustrations
- p. xi
- Foreword
- p. xiii
- Preface
- p. xvii
- Part 1
- Vignettes of Jewish Life
- My Father, the Storyteller
- p. 3
- My Father, the Storyteller: The Tax Assessors
- p. 4
- The Logical Jews of Kolbuszowa
- p. 7
- My Grandmother's "Cholent"
- p. 9
- My Father, the Storyteller: The Boots
- p. 11
- Two Brothers Meet
- p. 12
- The Pogrom
- p. 14
- The Tale of the Yeast Box
- p. 18
- Some Jewish Humor from the Shtetl
- p. 21
- More Jewish Humor
- p. 24
- The "Streimel" and the "Chosen"
- p. 30
- My Father, the Businessman
- p. 34
- The Words of My Father
- p. 37
- My Father, the Storyteller: Sometimes Less Is More and Sometimes More Is Less
- p. 41
- In My Mother's Kitchen
- p. 43
- My Father, the Storyteller: The Rabbi and the Miser
- p. 46
- Jew, Jew, Jew
- p. 48
- A Drunkard, a Footstool, and a Son
- p. 50
- The Audit
- p. 51
- Four Women Who Were Left Behind
- p. 54
- Strict Observance
- p. 56
- The Passovers of My Childhood
- p. 63
- Part 2
- The War--Tales of Life, Death, Hope, and Despair
- The Death of Rabinowicz
- p. 69
- A Piece of Cotton
- p. 74
- The Cigarette
- p. 77
- In Memory of Four Unlikely Heroes
- p. 80
- The Jewish Woodchoppers of Kolbuszowa
- p. 84
- They Don't Give Change in the Concentration Camps
- p. 87
- Violence in Pustkow
- p. 89
- Due Process: German Style
- p. 92
- The Kolbuszower Bunche Schwaig
- p. 95
- A Mother's Grief
- p. 98
- Cruel Remembrances
- p. 99
- A Close Encounter with Death
- p. 104
- A Tale of Two Heroines: Part I
- p. 106
- A Tale of Two Heroines: Part II
- p. 109
- Perfect Aryans
- p. 113
- My Five Sisters
- p. 115
- A Letter by an Inmate of the Ghetto Recounts the Struggle to Survive
- p. 126
- The Escape
- p. 128
- The Overcrowding of the Lifeboat
- p. 132
- Tarzan
- p. 135
- The Kielbasa Pusher
- p. 139
- A Justified Revenge
- p. 141
- A Day in Treblinka
- p. 144
- While the Ghetto Burned
- p. 145
- "Charlie": The American Who Never Made It
- p. 149
- A Tale of Survival: Part I
- p. 154
- A Tale of Survival: Part II
- p. 159
- My Last Day in the AK
- p. 162
- The War Ends: The Killing Continues
- p. 164
- Belzec Described by an Engineer Who Worked There for the Germans
- p. 167
- The First and Last Jews in Kolbuszowa
- p. 168
- Part 3
- Surviving the Holocaust
- The Photographs
- p. 177
- My Brief Career as a Pilot
- p. 182
- A "Kol Nidre" Memorial
- p. 186
- Another Surviving Jew Is Found
- p. 190
- The Hundred Children
- p. 193
- Save the Child
- p. 196
- As Natural as Breathing In and Out
- p. 201
- "Kol Nidre" in Crakow
- p. 203
- Like a Cat, I Seem to Have Nine Lives
- p. 204
- Courting My Wife
- p. 212
- The Lord "in" My Shepherd
- p. 218
- A Friend in High Places
- p. 222
- Working for the Communists
- p. 226
- Living in the Land of Babel
- p. 228
- The Kielce Pogrom
- p. 231
- At the Martyrs' Grave
- p. 234
- Part 4
- Getting a Foothold in the Golden Land
- Our First Day in America
- p. 239
- "Relatively" Speaking, We Were Not Well Off
- p. 241
- Looking for a Job in America
- p. 246
- My First Job in America: The Ink Factory
- p. 249
- My Four Weddings
- p. 252
- Giant-Size Bloomers: No. 5X
- p. 256
- Two Tales of Jewish Life
- p. 257
- Some Help and Some Hindrance along the Way
- p. 261
- The Crossroad
- p. 265
- On Becoming an American
- p. 268
- A Few Blemishes on America the Beautiful
- p. 271
- Two Paths to Salvation
- p. 275
- The Judge
- p. 277
- A Miracle in Jersey City
- p. 279
- The "Shpitz" of a "Koiledge"
- p. 281
- The Adoption
- p. 284
- Rachel's Ring
- p. 287
- My Polish Neighbor in New Jersey
- p. 289
- My Dealings with the NAACP
- p. 292
- An Unexpected Encounter
- p. 295
- The Button and the Cap
- p. 300
- The Miniature Megillah
- p. 303
- Another Voice
- p. 306
- A Stamp Collector's Tale
- p. 309
- Chutzpah, Israeli Style
- p. 313
- Housing for the Jews
- p. 317
- Reflections on "Saving Private Ryan"
- p. 321
- Some Yom Kippur Daydreams
- p. 324
- Similarities and Differences
- p. 327
- Trips to the Holy Land
- p. 329
- My Three Homelands
- p. 337
- Daily Reminders of the Holocaust
- p. 341
