A Family Saga - Bloch, Alex
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A Family Saga: Life and Love Amidst Turmoil and Tragedy takes an in-depth look at the exceptional history of the Jews of Lithuania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The community was unique, as it excelled in rational religiosity, devotion to science, and a high intellectual level and discipline. The historical novel follows the lives of five generations of a family, and their experiences in Lithuania, including many important historical events of the time. Members of the family also stayed temporarily in Berlin, visited Palestine, finally emigrated to America, and visited…mehr

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A Family Saga: Life and Love Amidst Turmoil and Tragedy takes an in-depth look at the exceptional history of the Jews of Lithuania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The community was unique, as it excelled in rational religiosity, devotion to science, and a high intellectual level and discipline. The historical novel follows the lives of five generations of a family, and their experiences in Lithuania, including many important historical events of the time. Members of the family also stayed temporarily in Berlin, visited Palestine, finally emigrated to America, and visited Lithuania after the Holocaust. Dr. Alex Bloch is an historian who has since his retirement from his university position returned to his early love of historical fiction. Except now, with experience gained, he writes his fiction while applying his knowledge of understanding and interpreting past events in the light of the times they occurred. In addition to professional publications, he has written five novels: The Road Taken, The Cathedral, Fusion, Fermosa Rosales, and The Coin.
Autorenporträt
Born in Berlin, Alex Bloch escaped Germany at age nine, just before the start of WWII. Emigrating to America, he studied mechanical and industrial engineering at MIT and Columbia University, working in those fields in the U.S. and in Israel, where he emigrated in 1968. After retirement from the engineering field, the author studied history, receiving a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 1971, where he taught for six years. "After leaving Tel Aviv University, I started to write historical fiction books, and this is my thirteenth."