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Meltzer won several awards for single books and career achievements. World of Our Fathers (1974) - NBA finalist. Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust (1976). Violins & Shovels: the WPA Arts Projects (1976). In 1981 he was an American Book Award finalist for All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery. Taking Root: Jewish Immigrants in America (1976). Slavery from the Rise of Western Civilization to Today (1977). Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (1978).

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World of Our Fathers. March 2, 2003 Impoverished though Eastern European Jews had been, they had lived in a close-knit society, one where each felt a responsibility to hi. . At 13 he had consoled himself with the poetry of Keats, Milton and Wordsworth during a six-week bout of scarlet fever. If part of his early attraction to Trotskyism had been inspired by Leon Trotsky's own prowess as an intellectual and literary critic, in good dialectical fashion literature's open-endedness proved to be a subverter of Howe's Marxist dogmatism. Impoverished though Eastern European Jews had been, they had lived in a close-knit society, one where each felt a responsibility to his fellow Jew.

Personal Name: Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009. Summary, et. A history, using numerous secondary sources, of the Jews in eastern Europe, especially during the nineteenth century. The Jews Of Eastern Europe Yet the book - which ends up focusing on the 19th century shtetl of Russian-Polish Jews. The Jews Of Eastern Europe. This survey of Eastern European Jewry was prompted by Meltzer's desire to investigate the background his immigrant parents never talked about. As Meltzer reads neither Yiddish nor Hebrew, the result is, predictably, a montage of impressions excerpted from such standard English works as Zborowski and Herzog's Life is With People, Chamofsky's Jewish Life in the Ukraine, . Peretz' Memoirs, and . Bibliography: p. 261-266. Published 1974 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York.

World of Our Fathers: The Jews of Eastern Europe 33 copies. Among the many honors for his books are five nominations for the National Book Award as well as the Christopher, Jane Addams, Carter G. Woodson, Jefferson Cup, Washington Book Guild, Olive Branch, and Golden Kite Award. Also by Milton Meltzer. Many of his books have been chosen for the honor lists of the American Library Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Council for the Social Studies, as well as for the New York Times Best Books of the Year list. Disambiguation notice.