Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California - Softcover

Pell, Joseph; Rosenbaum, Fred

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9781662910951: Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California
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ISBN 10: 1662910959 ISBN 13: 9781662910951
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press, 2021

Synopsis

On the night the SS rounded up the Jews of his Ukrainian ghetto, eighteen-year-old Yosel Epelbaum crawled on his hands and knees to a nearby forest. There he joined a diverse band of pro-Soviet partisans, led by a kind of warlord in the wilderness, who created a "forest republic" behind enemy lines. With his courageous comrades, Epelbaum disrupted the German war effort for almost a year and a half and saved hundreds of civilans at the same time.After the liberation. the young survivor became caught up in Europe's roaring black market. With little money or formal education, an knowing no English, he immigrated to San Francisco in 1947 and within a year opened an ice cream shop in the city's outlying, foggy Sunset District. Only a decade later Joe Pell was well on his way to becoming one of the leading real estate developers in Northern California.Taking Risks, related in a taut and vivid style, is his story--one of loss and torment but also daring, ingenuity, and uncommon resilience.

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About the Author

Joseph Pell (formerly Yosel Epelbaum) grew up buying and selling livestock in remote Polish villages. During World War II he fought in a partisan unit in Nazi -occupied Ukraine. After immigrating to San Francisco he was the co-owner of two ice cream stores and later founded Pell Development, a major real estate company with residential and commercial properties throughout Northern California. Fred Rosenbaum was the Founding Director of Lehrhaus Judaica (now HaMaqom), the largest school for adult Jewish education in Northern California. He is the award-winning author of eight books on modern Jewish history.

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Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1662910959
ISBN 13 
9781662910951
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
242
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