A Voice from the Lost Town of Trochenbrod: A Translation of Poems, Essays and Letters by Yisrael Beider - Paperback

by Yisrael Beider (Author), Gabriel Laufer (Translator)

This English translation from Hebrew and Yiddish is the first compilation of Yisrael Beider's surviving life work. The collection includes extraordinary poems, essays and letters by a son of Trochenbrod - an exclusively Jewish town that was completely destroyed in the Holocaust and its population, including Beider, slaughtered.

Author Biography

Gabriel Laufer, the son of Holocaust survivors, native of Israel, lives in Charlottesville, VA. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Princeton University and served as a professor at the Technion in Israel and at the University of Virginia until his retirement. He is the author of A Survivor's Duty, co-translator of Notes from the Valley of Slaughter by Aharon Pick.