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Taking Risks A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California

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ISBN-10: 1571431160

ISBN-13: 9781571431165

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph Pell, Fred Rosenbaum, Fred Rosenbaum

List price: $14.95
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The night the SS rounded up the Jews of his ghetto, 18-year-old Yosel Epelbaum crawled on his hands and knees to a nearby forest soon to be engulfed by winter. There he joined a band of pro-Soviet partisans who resisted the Nazis and saved hundreds of civilians. After the war, he smuggled contraband from one end of Europe to the other. Then, without money or a formal education and knowing no English, he immigrated to San Francisco. Within a decade, Yosef--"now known as Joe Pell--"was on his way to becoming one of Northern California's leading real estate developers.
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: RDR Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Fred Rosenbaum is the Founding Director of Lehrhaus Judaica, the largest school for adult Jewish education in the American West. He has also taught modern Jewish history at the Graduate Theological Union, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. Rosenbaum is the award-winning author of seven books on Bay Area Jewish history and the Holocaust including most recently, with Eva Libitzky,Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond.