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An Italian Renaissance
An Italian Renaissance

An Italian Renaissance

Choosing Life in Canada

RELIGION

177 Pages, 6.7 x 9.6

Formats: Cloth

Cloth, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $29.95)

Publication Date: November 2010

ISBN 9789655240443

Rights: WOR

Urim Publications (Nov 2010)

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Overview

After the end of World War II, Holocaust survivors Bela and Judit Rubinstein, their families having been murdered by the Nazis, returned to Hungary. This chronicle follows them first there, and then to a refugee camp in northern Italy, the only haven for homeless Jews in postwar Europe. The account also describes the unexpected opportunity for the Rubinsteins to immigrate to Canada, and narrates their life there—the home that they establish, the family they raise, and their social and professional integration into the Toronto community. Along the way, Bela and Judit reclaim their ravished ancestral faith, an act that imbues their lives with meaning and purpose. Written with sensitivity and eloquence by their son, this biography breaks with the tradition of tragic Holocaust literature to present a story of the astounding process of healing and recovery undergone by so many survivors, who had to overcome unspeakable personal trauma to build successful new lives. The universal message of hope that emanates from this book will inspire a broad range of readers.

Reviews

“This book will be an important addition to our contemporary sacred literature, and may well be among the top ten accounts of survivors’ lives after the war. It is a remarkable act of piety and of love – all the more powerful because of its nuances, its honesty, and its feeling for the complexity and the ambiguity of life. I found the book to be consistently touching, quietly inspiring, and too compelling to put down.”  —Rabbi Dr. Irving Greenberg, founding president, Jewish Life Network; former chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council

“Eli Rubinstein’s An Italian Renaissance is a triply extraordinary book. As history, it breaks important new ground in telling the story of the Grugliasco refugee camp; the author’s painstaking research, coupled with his insight regarding the camp’s Jewish residents and the Italians in nearby Torino, enable him to provide fresh perspective to scholars and laymen alike."  —Dr. Daniel Polisar, president, Shalem Center

Author Biography

Robert Eli Rubinstein is a businessman and communal leader. He lives in Toronto.

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