UPDATE:
I have been informed by several people outside
the US that they had trouble with the download..
First, be sure that you have clicked on the button in the middle of the page that says "kindle"
Best wishes,
Regards, Norbert
First, be sure that you have clicked on the button in the middle of the page that says "kindle"
Best wishes,
Regards, Norbert
In honor of my parent's memory, I am making my book, Courage of the Spirit, available for free eBook download through Amazon Kindle from August 1-August 5.
29 Tammuz is the date, according
to the Jewish calendar,
of the passing of my mother, Irene Weinberg, who survived Nazi persecution
while hiding in the open in Lwow and Warsaw. I am doing this special offer in
honor of her and of my father, Rabbi William Weinberg, who served as the first
State Rabbi of the German State of Hesse after the Shoah .
To download your copy, please go to
Amazon.com Click
here to go to the page at Amazon. (Or copy and paste this link https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Spirit-Norbert-Weinberg/dp/098466856X?ie=UTF8&qid=1398150275&ref_=tmm_pap_title_0&sr=8-1) Select Kindle version. Then click on the "Buy
Now" button ( not the "Read for Free" which is for Kindle
subscribers only). The "buy now" will cost $0.00 if you chose to do
so during the Free Giveaway Time. Please feel free to pass this on
to your contacts, as I want to make my father’s incredible story available to a broad public.
You don’t need a
Kindle to read it. The Amazon website has a link for information for
reading Kindle on any device.
My book, Courage of the Spirit,
tells of my father’s saga in the decades up to and through the years of the
Shoah. It is a story that spans thousands of physical miles, by freight train
and on foot, from the Galician Shtetl to cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin, and to
Stalingrad and central Asia and back as my father kept one step ahead of the
Nazi armies. It is a story that spans the mental and emotional journey from the
medieval Shtetl, the great empires, and the weak democracies and totalitarian
regimes that followed, and finally, to freedom.
We are shown a window into life in a
Nazi prison and concentration camp, the day-to-day life of Jews in Nazi
Berlin, and the vagaries of survival under Stalin’s
totalitarianism.
It is my plan
to tell my
mother’s story as well as
the story of the rebuilding of Jewish communal life in Frankfurt in the
post-war years. I will be basing my work on documents now archived at the
United States Museum of the Holocaust( recently placed on-line by the Museum).
Please download the ebook from Amazon from August 1 through
August 5,
and forward this email to your friends and contacts as a way of helping me honor my parents and spreading the message of Courage of the Spirit..
Shalom and regards,
and forward this email to your friends and contacts as a way of helping me honor my parents and spreading the message of Courage of the Spirit..
Shalom and regards,
Norbert
Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberg
email: norofra@sbcglobal.net
Link for information on Courage of the Spirit
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Comments
on Courage of the Spirit:
I'm
so glad my book reached you. I just finished reading Courage of the Spirit and
I'm simply overwhelmed by the extraordinary story you relate! Your book is an
extraordinary contribution to Jewish thought, as well as the triumphant story
of survival in the face of unimaginable odds. I'm not sure where to begin.
I'm actually speechless at the moment. As a writer, I can appreciate the
painstaking research, which went into this book. Every page was an emotional
and intellectual revelation to me. Your writing style is not only inviting and
accessible, but also intellectually engaging. It's as if you consciously set
out to engage those who have a passive interest in the Jewish narrative of the
twentieth century, as well as the intellectual who is well grounded in the
history, but may lack an appreciation for the unfolding human
drama. (Ralph Georgy, author of Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story)
Congratulation
on getting the first volume
of your trilogy published! It´s great that the book is
finally available for researchers. I will definitely recommend the book
for the Jewish Museum´s library, other institutions and some Czech
historians/researchers who are interested, especially in the aftermath of
the Shoah and the postwar time.(Mgr. Monika Hanková, The Archives of the Jewish
Museum in Prague)
In Rabbi Norbert Weinberg’s reckoning of his father’s tumultuous,
tragic past, history is no arid enterprise, no bloodless recording of
facts and figures. Interspersing personal reminiscence with detailed
historical rendering, Courage of the Spirit brings the horrific twentieth
century to life through the story of Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, and his
journey through Nazi camps and Soviet terror.(Saul Austerlitz, author of Sitcom:
A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community)
“Courage
of the Spirit” by Rabbi Norbert Weinberg is a major contribution to the
literature of the Shoah by transcending the cold facts of those dark days into
a personal account of the experiences of the author’s father. Rabbi
Weinberg meticulously traces his father’s arrest by the Nazis in 1939 and
brings us full circle to his being named the first State rabbi of Hesse.
Throughout those terror-filled days, the rabbi retained his faith and
determination to survive.The book is a must reading to all those who want to
capture and be inspired by the inner strength and resilience of the Jewish
people as reflected in the life of Rabbi William Weinberg. (Rabbi Norbert
Weinberg, Rabbi of the Adams Street Shul and author of A Time to Tell: Stories and Recollections of a Rabbi from
Kristalnacht to the Present , ''and When The Rabbi Laughs'': A Delightful Compendium Of
Contemporary Rabbinic Humor,and numerous other books.)
Courage
of the Spirit
was recently featured on “Advocacy Heals You”, with Joni Aldrich on W4CS.com,
the Cancer Support Network, as themes from the book offered moral and spiritual
courage in life’s struggles; the interview can be heard at: http://www.iheart.com/talk/show/Joni-Aldrich-SOS-Supporter-of/?episode_id=26932481
Rabbi
Weinberg was interviewed by Phil Blazer, JLTV.TV:This is a link to the
conclusion: http://youtu.be/DC2YDnxbM8E . The full interview is
at http://www.jltv.tv/videos.php?id=3&play=1881 at
29:30 seconds into the program
