Translated by Uri Kaploun. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 239 pages. The dust jacket is in fine condition. The boards are in fine condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Title: In the Shadow of the Kremlin: Personal Sagas of Jews Who Risked Their Lives and Suffered Imprisonment in Stalin's Russia (The ArtScroll History Series)
Publisher: Mesorah Publications Ltd
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0899064728
ISBN 13: 9780899064727
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Weight: 21 ounces

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After years of Siberian agony and torment, a Jew comes back home to find that there is no longer a place for the children to study Torah. Without hesitation, he puts his life at risk again, and begins to teach. This book - a best seller in Israel in its Hebrew version - tells the story of eight such Jews, each a dynamic chassid, who were not broken by danger, hunger, torture, and exile. All eight wrote new chapters of devotion to a Final Authority infinitely higher than the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. How does one retain his sanity in a prison camp where he is not permitted to sit or rest from 6 AM to midnight — and then is awakened from exhausted slumber in the middle of the night for a brutal interrogation? How does one maintain his faith when the "Workers' Paradise"” becomes a hell for no other reason than that one insists on remaining an observant Jew? How does one rear his children as Jews in the face of an atheistic, totalitarian state that is devoid of compassion and feeli

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Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

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