Remember This Dream

By Harold Gershowitz

Book Overview

Meticulously researched history is woven into an extraordinary family saga. 1911, a time of continuing upheaval for Polish Jews, an era of exodus?when the poor and proud seek new lands of promise... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861888480
• ISBN13: 9780861888481
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The horror and hope of the early 1900's

Remember This Dream is an introduction to the Jewish culture through the eyes of two generations of a Polish family. I learned a lot about the history of this culture that I didn't know. It begins with Anna leaving Poland to join her husband in America. She must leave her mother and two sisters (Dvoyra and Esther), and her husbands parents. She also leaves the only homeland she has ever known. We travel with her and her three young daughter across the Atlantic to the hope of America. The jouney is hard and America is not the land of plenty she had envisioned. We live with the family as they assimilate and make a life for themselves and their growing family. Across the ocean we live with Dvoyra and her husband who have chosen to try to make a better life in their homeland. We live with her family as the political winds change and bring heartache to the Jewish population of eastern Europe. We live in a ghetto is Poland after Hitler takes over the area. The triumphs and tragedies of this family are riveting. The characters are rich and flawed as all humans are, and I came to love and care about them. Harold Gershowitz gave me a very personal education of this time in our history and of the Jewish people who lived through it. It was a rewarding read and I recommend it highly.

Best Epic Novel In A Long Time

Mr Gershowitz found his way into my heart with this novel about a Jewish family trying to survive decades of horrors. I learned to love history through stories like this one. If you can pull me into the humanity of the historical event, you've got me hooked into the details of the whys, hows, whos and whens and Mr Gershowitz did just that. This family undergoes the struggles of millions of European Jews from the early 1900's through the 1940's, and their journeys are fraught with horrors no humans should endure. In reading this book, you grow to love the character's strengths and find true heroes. THis book would make an excellent screenplay!

Follow This Dream

This is really an amazing book - although fictionalized it allowed me a peak into my own grandparents lives...something that was never shared and I really felt a void. So...I feel it is a great read for any age or gender. Great gift for school age and elderly. Thoroughly enjoyable.

a book I could not put down

By Karen Rothaus Rosenthal (Upper Saddle River, NJ) - See all my reviews This review is from: Remember This Dream (Mass Market Paperback) Very powerful. The author uses a fictional family to correctly & historically portray the plight of the Jews from the early 1900's through World War II. The book addresses the background and reason for the mass exodus from Europe and Russia to the United States during the early part of the twentieth century - why some had the courage to leave and why others chose to stay. And then the author - using true historical figures, events and facts describes the fate of those left behind. Simultaneously, the author depicts life and the political atmosphere in Europe and the United States. One immediately becomes involved with the author's characters. This book is a fast read. I could not put it down.

Remember This Dream

Very powerful. The author uses a fictional family to correctly & historically portray the plight of the Jews from the early 1900's through World War II. The book addresses the background and reason for the mass exodus from Europe and Russia to the United States during the early part of the twentieth century - why some had the courage to leave and why others chose to stay. And then the author - using true historical figures, events and facts describes the fate of those left behind. Simultaneously, the author depicts life and the political atmosphere in Europe and the United States. One immediately becomes involved with the author's characters. This book is a fast read. I could not put it down.