Lives and Embers - Jacob G Rosenberg australian working as a wheat controller

working as a wheat controller for the Germans and at the same time becoming an officer in the Polish underground army

Intrally forced into an unbearable ghetto

In the spring of 1944

By royal edict

Lives and Embers - Jacob G Rosenberg australian working as a wheat controllerRemarkable prose collection from a notable Australian poet. If life is a cosmic stage where illusions are the only reality, says Jacob G. Rosenberg, it is through these illusions that we can sometimes better recognize our world, our fellows, and ourselves. Such is the author's hope in this book. The stories in the first part, Lives, explore dimensions of the human landscape. The shorter pieces that make up Embers, inspired by the midrashic tradition