David Mittelberg, Ph.D., serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Kibbutz Research at Haifa University, Israel. He is also Director of the Department of Sociology at Oranim, The Academic College of Education, where he is also currently the Chairperson and Co-Founder of Project Oren: Kibbutz Institute for Jewish Experience. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies and in the Department of Sociology, both at Harvard University. Dr. Mittelberg is the author of The Israel Connection and American Jews (1999) and Strangers in Paradise: The Israeli Kibbutz Experience (1988). He has served as the acting Chairperson of the Israeli Forum and as a member of the Board of the Israeli Forum and its Executive Committee.

“No matter how familiar one may be with the record of the Holocaust, reading this book will provide profound and moving new understanding and perspective.” David M. Gordis, Ph.D., President and Professor of Rabbinics Hebrew College, Newton, MA

“Israel Mittelberg’s detailed and searing account of his personal survival of the Holocaust is followed by his son David’s testament to the lessons learned and applied in his life as an Israeli. Together, these deeply personal reflections complete the circle: from death to life, despair to hope and defeat to survival. To read this book is to feel the pain of human suffering and the power of the human spirit.” Steven A. Rakitt, CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta