tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750366.post6597646660299095518..comments2024-01-26T17:17:45.446-05:00Comments on Truth, Justice & Peace: The Team of ReadersJudiPhillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08315627008990337612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750366.post-86815699607048158682008-12-08T14:10:00.000-05:002008-12-08T14:10:00.000-05:00Greetings. I am the author of a new love story fr...Greetings. I am the author of a new love story framed within the Holocaust, called, Jacob's Courage. Portions of the novel were based upon my mother’s memoirs. She is currently 99 and lives here in Ohio. My mother experienced intolerance and brutality as a young Jew in Russia. Members of her family perished in The Holocaust.<BR/><BR/>Jacob's Courage chronicles the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are brutally murdered. In 1939, seventeen-year-old Austrians Jacob Silverman and Rachael Goldberg were bright, talented, dazzlingly happy and deeply in love. But, because they were Jews, their families lost everything. The Nazis took away their jobs, their houses and apartments, their possessions and their money. They lost contact with loved ones. Finally, they lost their liberty. Jacob and Rachael "grew up" during the Holocaust. As teenagers, they survived the beatings, rapes, and murderous acts of the Nazis, enjoyed the physical and spiritual pleasure of being in love and were able to become husband and wife in the Theresienstadt camp. They escaped, joined the partisans and fought the Nazi enemy, before Jacob and his father were imprisoned in Auschwitz. In the end, only their love and their faith that God had a plan for them kept them alive.<BR/><BR/>A retired university administrator, I was published for nonfiction in 1986 and I completed my first full-length novel last year. Jacob’s Courage (Mazo Publishers), is reviewed by Jewish Book World and the Association of Jewish Libraries, and is sold through Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble and many other fine bookstores. Here is a web site with brief summaries of some of the reviews http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/?page_id=3&preview=true. You can read the reviews more extensively at the Amazon site http://www.amazon.com/Jacobs-Courage-Holocaust-Love-Story/dp/9657344247/ref=sr_1_1/002-8189239-3149614?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174846034&sr=1-1. <BR/><BR/>Would you be interested in reviewing Jacob’s Courage or writing an article about it? I believe that your readers would find the novel intriguing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750366.post-47154787656743903992008-12-08T12:31:00.000-05:002008-12-08T12:31:00.000-05:00I have not read the book and I am far from an expe...I have not read the book and I am far from an expert or even a widely-read amateur on this topic. But I have read the 2 parts of Now I Will Bear Witness [forget by whom] and I recall neither detachment nor a sense of business-as-usual as the prevailing mood. Rather the deliberate arousal of stronger, more primitive emotions by the Nazis and an omnipresent sense of fear and powerlessness in their targets. Overall, a populance of raw nerves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com