The Warriors: My Life as a Jewish Soviet Partisan

by Harold Zissman

Book Overview

In this candid memoir, Harold Zissman examines Jewish existence in prewar and wartime Poland. Born into an observant family, he begins by recalling his youth in the Polish town of Ostrow-Mazowieck, near the German border. It is the 1930s, a time of childhood nostalgia darkened by ominous anti-Semitic uprisings and government indifference.

In lean and concise prose, Zissman relives the German invasion of Poland and his own incarceration in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560839X
• ISBN13: 9780815608394
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"