Ship of the Hunted

by Yehuda Elberg

Book Overview

This is the story of one family's struggle to survive in the squalor of the Warsaw ghetto during the onset of the Holocaust. Yossel Yurek is a thirteen-year-old Jew whose ingenuity in smuggling goods in and out of his community saved the lives of those dear to him-as well as his own. It is the story of his mother, Golda, who courageously escaped from Treblinka. It is the true story of a family forever torn asunder by war. By January 1943, everyone...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815604491
• ISBN13: 9780815604495
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

From a student of the Translator

Ship of the Hunted is the second in a loosely-linked series about Jewish life leading up to, during, and after the Holocaust. Elberg is a phenomenal writer who paints clearly a picture of the mental strife and anguish that so many were forced to go through. Dealing with family loyalties, religious loyalties, and general dislocation of mind, body, and spirit, Elberg truly is one of the masters of contemporary Yiddish Literature! Praise to Dr. Barbara E. Galli too, for making the translation as alive as the original text and the events as well!