Werken van Martin Bodek
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- Gangbare naam
- Bodek, Martin
- Officiële naam
- Bodek, Martin M.
- Geboortedatum
- 1975-04-19
- Graflocatie
- Whoa, hey, death comes first, no?
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New Jersey, USA
- Relaties
- Jacobs, A. J. (13th cousin, twice removed)
Shakespeare, William (37th cousin, 12 times removed) - Korte biografie
- Martin Bodek is co-founder of TheKnish.com - a Jewish version of The Onion. He is the beat reporter for JrunnersClub.org, a Brooklyn-based organization for athletes. He researches surnames for Jewishworldreview.com (e-mail onsurnames@gmail.com with yours and he'll do the legwork for you!). He has been writing freelance for more than 15 years for The Huffington Post, The Denver Post, The Washington Times, The Jewish Press, bangitout.com and other sites and media outlets as well as Germany's only weekly Jewish newspaper, The Judische Allgemeine. His books have been featured at the YU Seforim Sale. He was born and raised in the wilds of Brooklyn, New York, has worked most of his life in the badlands of New York City and settled in the jungles of northern New Jersey with his strong wife and three above average children. As you can tell, he wants to be a writer if and when he grows up.
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Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.This is a heartfelt memoir told by the author’s Romanian grandfather of his experience surviving the Buchenwald concentration camp. It is a simply told story but very compelling.
A young man writes of the life of his grandfather Zaidy, who experienced the Holocaust as a Romanian Jew. The author share’s his family’s world with the reader, and it was interesting to learn about their strong faith and their way of life. I was reminded of when I was graciously invited to Seder at a friend’s house. (I am not Jewish.)
The book has a few sections. The first half of the book is the story of Zaidy as narrated by the author. The section on his early life and survival through the horrors of the Holocaust are by far the most interesting. Zaidy ultimately moves to the US and works a series of jobs and has many grandbabies in his old age. A large section of text is the transcript of the interviews in which the author tries to tease out details of Zaidy’s experiences and the timeline. This allows the reader to hear Zaidy’s story firsthand, but it is the same information that was already covered. I felt it was superfluous. An extensive genealogy is also included in the appendix, and references too.
I was provided with an ARC (thanks to the author & publisher!) and I am voluntarily posting my honest review.… (meer)
The book has a few sections. The first half of the book is the story of Zaidy as narrated by the author. The section on his early life and survival through the horrors of the Holocaust are by far the most interesting. Zaidy ultimately moves to the US and works a series of jobs and has many grandbabies in his old age. A large section of text is the transcript of the interviews in which the author tries to tease out details of Zaidy’s experiences and the timeline. This allows the reader to hear Zaidy’s story firsthand, but it is the same information that was already covered. I felt it was superfluous. An extensive genealogy is also included in the appendix, and references too.
I was provided with an ARC (thanks to the author & publisher!) and I am voluntarily posting my honest review.… (meer)
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.As a family genealogy project, this books works. It feels hand written- not formally polished or reframed. The narrator is openly present in the storytelling - alternating between referring to his grandfather by his first name and “Zaidy” (grandfather in Yiddish). The story arc of the grandfather’s war would be compelling but the storytelling got in the way.
As a family heirloom and something to share with his children - solid job. As a commercial biography, it’s not quite up to the job.… (meer)
As a family heirloom and something to share with his children - solid job. As a commercial biography, it’s not quite up to the job.… (meer)
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- 11
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- 26
- Populariteit
- #495,361
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 15
- Talen
- 1
A brief but powerful retelling. Martin Bodek does his grandfather’s story justice, allowing a glimpse of the holocaust from a perspective that I haven’t read before. Fascinating, devastating and hopeful.
(I received a free copy of this book from the author via VoraciousReadersOnly.)