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Data de naixement
1935-07-08
Data de defunció
2008-07-15
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
Israel
Lloc de naixement
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Lloc de defunció
Jerusalem, Israel
Llocs de residència
Jerusalem, Israel
Educació
Oxford University (St. Catherine's College)
Professions
journalist
Biografia breu
Eric Silver was born to an Anglo-Jewish family in Leeds, England. He won a scholarship to Oxford University, where he read philosophy, politics and economics. After working for local newspapers, in 1960 he joined the staff of The Guardian as a subeditor. From 1966 to 1967, he was deputy labor correspondent. He was sent to Israel in 1967 to cover the aftermath of the Six-Day War. Then in 1972, he was named Jerusalem correspondent of both The Guardian and The Observer, a post he held for the next 11 years. In 1983, he became India correspondent and traveled widely in the region, visiting Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Four years later, he and his wife Bridget decided to return to Jerusalem, where they owned a house, and he became a freelance writer. He was a regular contributor to the BBC World Service and did work for The Independent, the Jewish Chronicle, Jerusalem Report, Time magazine, and CNN. He wrote a critically-acclaimed biography of Menachem Begin called Begin: The Haunted Prophet, published in 1984. It was followed by The Book of the Just: The Unsung Heroes Who Rescued Jews from Hitler (1992), which won several prizes. After his death, his wife published By Eric Silver, Dateline Jerusalem (2011), a collection of his reportage from 1967 to 2008.

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There are some amazing stories in here, including several I hadn't heard of. Like the British POW who escaped his detention camp 19 times, smuggled arms to the Polish resistance, sabotaged the war effort, sent coded letters home to British intelligence, and saved over 400 Jews in Auschwitz. (Ironically, his last name was Coward.) This is a lot like Mordecai Paldiel's book The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, except not so intimidatingly long. Recommended for adults and children age 12 and up.… (més)
 
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meggyweg | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Apr 13, 2011 |
Brief and well written. The author asks a question that in the end he admits has no definitive answer: what led people to risk their lives to rescue Jews during WWII? But the discussion of the question with examples of specific events make the book worth reading. I especially liked the more historically accurate picture of Oskar Schindler.
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sa54d | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Aug 8, 2006 |

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4
Membres
126
Popularitat
#159,216
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
2
ISBN
12
Llengües
2
Preferit
1

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