"therefore, Choose Life...": An Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9780870717444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Moisey Wolf; Judson Rosengrant

Opis

An annotated translation of the extraordinary autobiography of Dr. Moisey Wolf (1922-2007), " Therefore, Choose Life... " is an important addition to the literature of Jewish experience and deepens our understanding of the human condition in the twentieth century.
Wolf describes his Jewish childhood and youth in pre-war Poland, his escape from the Holocaust and subsequent medical service in the Soviet Army during World War II and the following decade, his distinguished career in psychiatry in post-Stalinist Soviet Russia, and his final years in Portland, Oregon, after his departure from the Soviet Union in 1992.
Wolf s narrative skill and evocative personal insights, combined with Judson Rosengrant s judicious editing and annotation and elegant translation, provide the reader with direct access to a world that has seemingly ceased to exist, yet continues to resonate and inform our own lives in powerful ways.
" Therefore, Choose Life " will appeal to readers interested in the history of the East-European twentieth century, pre-Holocaust Jewish family life in Poland, and in the survival of a man of deep religious faith and cultivation in the face of the catastrophes and vicissitudes of his time and place."