A Ne Life in Israel 1950-1954 [Hardcover]

A New Life in Israel, 1950-1954 is the last book in the trilogy about Shimon Redlichs childhood and adolescence. In Together and Apart in Brzezany he discussed his childhood in prewar and wartime Brzezany. Life in Transit told the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. A New Life in Israel focuses on his first years in the Jewish state. The book bears witness to the adjustment of one young immigrantone among thousandsto the realities of a new life in Israel.Shimon Redlich, a child survivor of the Holocaust, was born in Lwow in 1935 and lived in nearby Brzezany until 1945, when he was repatriated to Lodz. He left Poland for Israel in 1950. He studied at Hebrew University, Harvard, and New York University. He taught History at Ben-Gurion University for close to forty years. Redlich has written numerous books and articles on the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe.Dedication Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter One The Promised Land Chapter Two Kibbutz Merhavia Chapter Three Afula Chapter Four Training Base Four Bibliography Index[Shimon Redlich's] brief but illustrative tale of life in the kibbutz Merhavia in the Jezreel Valley, followed by settling in the northern town of Afula, and his tour of service in the IDF (Israel Defence Force) is a memoir that will interest a wide ranging audience.This book completes Shimon Redlichs autobiographical trilogy about his childhood and adolescence in wartime Europe and in early Israel. It bears witness to the adjustment of one young immigrant one among thousands  to the realities of life in the new country.