Just A Few Questions: Barbaric Stories from an Ordinary Life

Name: Just A Few Questions: Barbaric Stories from an Ordinary Life
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ByAbe Salem Cindy Harris

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Just A Few Questions: Barbaric Stories from an Ordinary Life by Abe Salem as told to Cindy Harris

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Publication Date: Apr 4, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780557792641
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Abe Salem, By (author): Cindy Harris

Specifications

Pages: 262
Binding Type: Hardcover Case Wrap
Interior Color: Black & White
Dimensions: US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

Keywords

WWII Holocaust Poland Russia

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About Abe Salem

Torah reader and minyan leader Abe Salem was born in Vengeroff, Poland in 1919. The eldest of seven children, he attended yeshiva in Poland, but hunger drove him to leave school to earn a living. After Kristallnacht, he unsuccessfully attempted to convince his family to leave Poland, and finally escaped to Russia himself after being thrown out of a three-story building by the Nazis and left to die. Imprisoned by the Russians in 1939 as a possible spy, he never saw his family again. Over the next ten years, he travelled through Russia, Poland, and Germany, surviving on his charm, his wits and an ability to lead davening that always earned him a meal when he needed it the most. In 1950, Abe, and his family settled in Pittsburgh in 1951. There he became an integral part of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, where he still leads services, cares for people in need, and shares his knowledge of Torah and stories of his "ordinary" life with anyone willing to listen.

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