Whose Little Boy Are You?
Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978. First English Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [10], 354 p. From Wikipedia: "Hanoch Bartov (born 13 August 1926) is an Israeli author and journalist. Hanoch Helfgott (Bartov) was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland. He attended a religious school and then the Ahad Haam gymnasium ] After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted in 1943, at the age of 17, in the Palestine Regiment of the British Army. He spent three years in the Jewish Brigade, first in Palestine and then in Italy and the Netherlands, where he served as a medic, caring for Holocaust survivors in DP camps. After World War II, Bartov studied Jewish and general history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the War of Independence he served in field army units and the Israel Defense Forces in Jerusalem. He lived for four years on Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh, working as a farmhand and a teacher. From 1966 to 1968, Bartov served as a cultural advisor in the Israeli embassy in London. Today Bartov lives in a suburb of Tel Aviv. Bartov published his first story in 1945, when he was a 19-year old soldier in Europe. In his writing, as a journalist and novelist, Bartov describes his first contacts with survivors of the Holocaust. The Brigade is a fictionalized account of the operation of the Jewish Brigade." Condition: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. DJ pasted to boards. Pocket pasted to fep.
Keywords: Israel, Palestine, Nachman Shpiegler, Immigrants, Arabs, Jews, Anti-Semitism, Coming of Age, Bar Mitzvah
ISBN: 9780827601123
[Book #68885]
Price: $18.50