by Stanley Abramovitch
Published by Penina Press
Softcover, 328 pages
ISBN 13: 978-193-6068-22-7
publication: 2011
In a remarkable sixty-five year odyssey, Stanley Abramovitch criss-crossed the Jewish world on behalf of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or the “Joint”)
bringing aid and simple caring to Jews in need in more than twenty
countries on three continents.
Through his life’s work, Stanley did more than just bear
witness to the great events of post-Holocaust Jewish history. He
helped shape them.
In these pages, Stanley captures a dramatic and often
poignant dimension of this history: the individual stories of
the men, women and children whose lives reflect times and
circumstances that are now only memory. We learn of their
challenges – of the struggles and the immense strength that
enabled them, their communities and our people, to overcome
difficult times.
Through his stories, Stanley Abramovitch offers us a precious
and fascinating window on a Jewish world that has changed beyond
recognition in just one lifetime.
About the Author:
Stanley Abramovitch’s drive to help his fellow Jews in
need led him to volunteer to work with Holocaust survivors
in 1945. With this, he left the London of his youth for
Germany, where he began a sixty-five year association with
the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),
the Jewish world’s preeminent international relief agency.
In the following decades, Stanley worked with Jews and
Jewish communities from Iran to Western Europe, North Africa, Israel and the
former Soviet Union. His contributions earned him wide recognition including
an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University. He also received rabbinical
ordination from the chief rabbis of Israel and Jerusalem.
Stanley and his wife, Noemi, live in Israel surrounded by their children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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