Forevermore : Three Documented Stories of Jewish Historical Figures Overcoming Oppression

A rabbi, teenager, and nobleman from three different eras fight the powers determined to destroy them and their people. FOREVERMORE vividly brings to life three separate documented stories that focus on Jewish people confronting oppression in three different historical periods. Their actions, culture and fate are described against the background of that period's historical events. First, Zabir Ben Bata, a nobleman Jew, is linked with Muhammad and the birth of Islam. What is the relationship between escaping Muhammad and the Jews in the beginning of his way, how he slaughtered them when they refused to acknowledge him as their prophet, and how Zabir reacted when he was told his friends and community were slaughtered while his own and his family's life were offered to him to by a Muslim he once had saved. In the second powerful episode, Rabbi Aharon and the Jewish residents of the fortress city of Tulczyn are betrayed by the Polish, after the Jews agree to help the Poles against the Khmelnytsky's Cossack attackers. The ultimate fate of each ethnic group is totally unpredictable. The third story is about fourteen-year-old Jacob Lipschutz, his life in the Warsaw Ghetto, forays outside the ghetto, his clashes with a Nazi solider who haunted him, and how he survived. The dramatic characters and eventful stories are all the more meaningful because they are based on history. They offer insight and colorful background into Jewish life, anti-Semitism, oppression, the spirit of the times and people. Shlomo Kalo, thinker, novelist and Nobel Prize candidate, developed a unique literary genre that he called "The Documented Story" and which he used in some of his 80 internationally published titles. Kalo chose true, fateful historical events that had sharp influence on people's life, ones out of which humane lessons can be drawn, and turned them into intriguing accounts with literary characteristics that are enjoyed and raved by many.

Author: Shlomo Kalo

Publisher: DAT Publications

Publication Date: Feb 23, 2016

Number of Pages: 166 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9657028647

ISBN-13: 9789657028643