Crossing the River

✍ Scribed by Shalom Eilati; Vern Lenz

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Crossing the River" is a personal memoirOCoand more. Against the backdrop of LithuaniaOCOs occupationOCofirst by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the RussiansOCoit is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine.aThe adult survivor, while recalling the terrorized child that he was and how he then perceived the adult world, also takes stock of his present life. Throughout the memoir, Eilati attempts to reconcile his present life as a husband, father, scientist, and writer, with the images, feelings, and thoughts from the past that have left an indelible mark on his life and that continue to haunt him.