Stories Told by an Old Jew. Purim Story

After the war, he didn’t get authorization to return to his native Crimea. He tried to find his family but could not. Later he learned that his wife and five-year-old son had perished on the road, from bloody flux, while departing for Kazakhstan along with the entire Crimean Tatar nation.

Stories Told by an Old Jew. Never Hide From Fate. Quote

Industrial schools in the Soviet Union were specialized schools for teaching blue-collar workers certain skills so they could be a blacksmith, a turner, a milling machine operator, an electrician, and other similar types of workers.

Stories Told by an Old Jew. Never Hide From Fate.

I don’t know if the investigator understood that I had learned a good deal about Schweik, the famous character of the Czech writer Gashek. I didn’t care if he understood or not, but my mother scolded me when she learned that I had pretended to be a fool in front of the investigator.

Young Leo


INTRODUCTION

The story I want to tell is not fictional; all of these events actually happened to my grandfather. In the 1880’s, when he was twelve years old, a series of events occurred that caused him to travel throughout the Crimea in search of his mother. His journey through the Crimea, which in those years was part of the Russian Empire, is described in this book. In the course of his wanderings, young Leo encountered representatives of various sectors of society: nobility, peasants and intelligentsia, and people of different cultures and nationalities—Russians, Gypsies, Jews and Crimean Tatars. These childhood adventures left a deep impression on my grandfather.

Stories Told by an Old Jew. Purim

The possibility of Stalin's death was absolutely unbelievable. Stalin, the greatest of all men, the genius of humanity, the chief of all nations, could never die!

Quote of the Day. Life is a temporary phenomenon

Earthly life is a temporary phenomenon only”, Jesus said thoughtfully. “Death comes sooner or later to all mortals. It is honour that is the eternal thing. I asked you not about your life, but about your honour and your good name.”

Discussion with the author about his recent book WHY HE BETRAYED JESUS

VIKTOR SHEL, the author of soon to become New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon, WHY HE BETRAYED JESUS, comes with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward the most controversial religious topic of humanity, and presenting the conclusion that Judas acted on the instructions of Jesus.

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