Rescuers; Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

Karen Bowers (book design) New York: Holmes *& Meier Publishers, Inc., 1992. Fourth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, 255, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Select Bibliography. A Note from the Photographer. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed on half-title by Rabbi Malka Drucker. Prologue by Cynthia Ozick. Afterword by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis. Cover has sticker that says "Now a Showtime Original Picture". Gay Block (born 1942) is a fine art portrait photographer. Her work is shown in books, and is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, and other major museums. Block collaborated with Rabbi Malka Drucker, and created Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, both a book and traveling exhibit. Block and Drucker traveled to eleven countries and photographed over 100 Christians who had helped rescue Jews during the Holocaust. The exhibit has been seen in over fifty venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, in 1992. Block's full color portraits accompany each narrative. Malka Drucker (born March 14, 1945) is an American rabbi and author. Ordained in 1998 from the Academy for Jewish Religion, a transdenominational seminary, Drucker was the founding rabbi of HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism, in Santa Fe for fifteen years. Drucker is the author of 21 books including the award winning Frida Kahlo, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, Grandma's Latkes and The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays. Her highly acclaimed Jewish Holiday Series won the Southern California Council on Literature for Children Prize series. Eliezer Ben Yehuda: Father of Modern Hebrew won the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Janusz Korczak Literary Competition and her biography of Frida Kahlo was chosen as an American Booksellers Association "Pick of the Lists." Condition: Very good.

Keywords: Holocaust, Genocide, Righteous Gentiles, Anti-Semitism, Pictorial Works, Righteous Among the Nations, Cynthia Ozick, Harold Schulweis

ISBN: 0841913234

[Book #74327]

Price: $75.00

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