Three Homelands: Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815607342)

Told with the inimitable flair of a born storyteller, these stories recall the lost world of small-town Polish Jewry before the Holocaust and the subsequent odyssey of one boy's struggle to stay alive in the face of catastrophe. Brimming with the authenticity and humanity of personal experience, these memoirs are at once persuasive, moving, and universal in appeal.

Packed with rarely divulged details of daily life during the Holocaust, the book provides significant insights into human nature and the roles played by chance and purpose in staying alive. It is a route of dizzying change. First, author Salsitz, an orthodox Jew, becomes a slave laborer. Then he becomes an escapee, then a partisan. In the ultimate irony, he passes as a non-Jew, working in Polish security after the war. In America, Salsitz finds that the very traits that saw him through the war enabled him to prosper in his adopted land.

Author: Norman Salsitz
ISBN-10: 0815607342
ISBN-13: 9780815607342
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2002
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.30w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2002 pg. 61
Booklist 12/15/2002 pg. 729
Multicultural Review 12/01/2003 pg. 65