Calvin Goldscheider is professor emeritus of sociology and Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Brown University. He previously taught at the Hebrew University and is now affiliated with American University's Center for Israel Studies, Washington, D.C. Goldscheider has published extensively on sociology and demography. Several of his books focus on comparative Jewish communities in the United States, Israel, and Europe.Jeffrey M. Green was born and raised in New York City. He earned a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Green has translated numerous books and articles from Hebrew and French and has also written several books, including two in Hebrew. He moved to Israel in 1973.

• Part 1 Introducing ShmuelChapter 2 Chapter 1: A Personal Pilgrimage to Tarnow, Poland, 2008Chapter 3 Chapter 2: "It Happened, but It Didn't Happen"Chapter 4 Chapter 3: "A City in My Bones"Chapter 5 Chapter 4: "A Shtinkindike Shtik Flaish"Chapter 6 Chapter 5: "How Far will it Go"Chapter 7 Chapter 6: "I Wasn't Lucky in Australia"Chapter 8 Chapter 7: "They Dry Out"Chapter 9 Chapter 8: "Not Lonely but Lost"Chapter 10 Chapter 9: "A Normal Life"Chapter 11 Chapter 10: New PlacesChapter 12 Chapter 11: A Poem about TarnowPart 13 Epilogue: Kibbutz Ein Zurim, Israel, July 2008

As a child of Holocaust survivors, I read this book with great interest and personal involvement. In a loving act of storytelling, Calvin Goldscheider and Jeffrey Green have resurrected the memories of the late Shmuel Braw, a Holocaust survivor to whom they became powerfully attached as worshipers in a Jerusalem synagogue. A man brimming with tales, Braw recounts his extraordinary narrative of pain, survival and triumph, bringing the authors and their readers into direct contact with his indefatigable spirit and stubborn attachment to life. His story and personality, so ably captured here, will echo in your memory long after the book is closed.