What a generous gesture! The book itself is a keeper, with its classic, Old World presentation, and its historic, entertaining storyline. I look forward to seeing the book, and any upcoming ones in the series, on our family's bookshelf for many years to come.

Thank you Robert. I found your site from a link at DhimmiWatch and have bookmarked it for future visits. As Pearl said above, a generous gesture.

My son is currently studying for his Bar Mitzvah so I look forward to having him read this, right after I finish!

I wish I had a zillion dollars to help you make the Osirak movie. It would have to be a zillion times better than the last two "pro-Israeli" movies celebrating the Entebbe rescue.

A side note: my mother's maiden name is Avroch. Haven't heard about too many other names that sounded even close! I wonder if there are cousins somewhere who haven't met!

Grantman:

Enjoy the book. I have met Avrech's from Chicago but we are not related. The name comes from the Torah. Joseph was called "Avrech" when he was appointed ministre of Egypt. Jewish families through the ages took the name, especially scholarly families.

hello robert

I happened across your blog and started to read it. I am writing you because my brother was killed while crossing the street in 1983, eleven months after my mother passed away from a six year battle with cancer. My father somehow dealt with this. My daughter, born a few months after my mother passed away, and my then toddler son kept me sane through a long and difficult time. It has now been almost 24 years since he is gone. My son is now 26 and an amazing human being. He possesses somehow the spirit, the sense of humor, and even the physical characteristics of my brother. My daughter holds within her my mother - in ways that sometimes startle and amaze me. She looks like her, thinks like her, and acts like her.

Perhaps I invent, perhaps not. Who really cares? I find comfort in these things, and when my son makes some razor witted comment and it reminds me of my brother and throws me into paroxyms of laughter - what does it matter if it connects me to my son or in some deeper sense to that part of me which is no longer accessible in the flesh.

Not an observant Jew, but one who believes in God, and in the way things on earth cycle, these are my rewards. I find that sometimes idiotic things rend my soul, and then I can somehow let loose the pent up emotions which are too painful to release. Occasionally it comes out in poetry, although of late I am too content for much of that, and too busy.

I wish you healing, and the circle that might help make the pain a little easier to bear.

Good luck on your blog.

hi robert...just wanted to say thank you for this site and all the work and reading you have done to make links accessible to us all...am a movie nut due to the fact that my period of historical expertise lies in the timeline between the two world wars ergo....anyway, thanx again! linda

Linda:

You're very welcome. Enjoy!