Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
My Gulag life : stories of a Soviet prisoner
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
"Rough-hewn and unpretentious in his Russian cap and bushy white beard, Reb Mendel Futerfas was a legend in his own time. He endured eight years in the Soviet Gulag and a seventeen-year separation ...
"Rough-hewn and unpretentious in his Russian cap and bushy white beard, Reb Mendel Futerfas was a legend in his own time. He endured eight years in the Soviet Gulag and a seventeen-year separation from his family--punishment for his work in Chabad's clandestine yeshivahs. Released from the Soviet Union in 1963, he would eventually rebuild his life as a mentor in Israel, where he drew on his experiences to inspire a new generation of Chasidim. Interweaving Reb Mendel's moving stories and biographical sketches, My Gulag Life offers a nuanced portrait of an iconic Chasid."--Page 4 of cover.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- as told by Reb Mendel Futerfas ; with biographical sketches by Dovid Zaklikowski
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- [Brooklyn, NY] : Hasidic Archives, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
-
- 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 16 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781944875183, 1944875182
- OCLC
- on1422159840
- "The Weiss Edition"--Title page.
- Youthful memories -- In the Gulag -- Free, but shackled -- Final exodus -- New life, new loss -- The traveling Farbrengen -- The stories I love -- Musings and parables -- Siblings reunite -- Rebbes' letters -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary
Subjects
- Futerfas, Mendel, 1906-1995.
- Futerfas, Mendel, 1906-1995 -- Biography.
- Political prisoners -- Soviet Union.
- Hasidim -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
- Hasidim -- Biography -- 20th century.
- Hasidim -- Legends.
- Memory -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Memory -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation).