Meyer, Cyndie

Menachem Taiblum's inspirational memoir, "With G-d at My Side: A Child's Story of Survival", details how he endured the Nazi occupation of Poland on his own.

In 1948 he was among the first groups of Jewish people legally allowed to immigrate into the new state of Israel. While at a newcomers' camp there, he had the opportunity to study with Moishe Kosowicki, one of the great cantors of the twentieth century. After serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, he married and had a daughter, finding work first as a construction truck driver and later in the orange groves.

Offered a job by a Jewis...