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Malka Druckeris the author of 21 books, including the award-winning worksFrida Kahlo, Rescuers- Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust,Grandma's Latkes,andWhite Fire- A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America.White Firewon the 2005 PEN Southwest Book Award for Nonfiction. Drucker's highly acclaimed Jewish Holiday series won the Southern California Council on Literature for Children Prize series. Another of her biographies,Eliezer Ben Yehuda- Father of ModernHebrew, won the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Janusz Korczak Literary Competition andFrida Kahlowas chosen as an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She belongs to many literary organizations, including The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Southern California Council on Literature for Young People, the Association of Jewish Librarians, The Authors Guild, and PEN. Ordained in 1998 from the Academy for Jewish Religion, a trans-denominational seminary, Malka Drucker is also the founding rabbi of HaMakom- The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Michael Halperinis an author and writer of many television episodes, plays, and books. He received a BA in communications from the USC Annenberg School of Communications and his PhD in film studies. Halperin was a story editor for Universal Television and an executive story consultant at 20th Century Fox. He is the coauthor of the bestselling and award-winning children's novelJacob's Rescue- A Holocaust Story. He is alsoknown for his bookBlack Wheels, which waschosen by the National Education Association as one of the best books of 2005-2013.
Left with an aunt when their widowed father escaped Poland in 1940 ( It's not safe for Jewish men...[but] No civilized country would hurt women and children ), Jacob Gutgeid and his brothers were sent to different hiding places outside the Warsaw Ghetto as the Nazis' intentions became evident. In 1941, Alex and Mela Roslan took Jacob in; at the risk of their lives and their children's, they deceived neighbors and German searchers, giving up one home, then another, on Jacob's behalf. His uncle, a doctor, prevailed on them to take in Jacob's brothers: Sholom, who died of scarlet fever, and later David, who - like Jacob - came to love the Roslans as parents. The authors fictionalize this true story with believable dialogue and dramatic scenes (Jacob being smuggled into a hospital for a lifesaving operation; a vicious massacre in retaliation for Partisan activity) and frame it as an explanation to Jacob's daughter, who's meeting the Roslans for the first time - which helps bring the story closer to the present, as do photos of the boys and the Roslans, then and now. The story's immediacy is also enhanced by realistic minor discord - the Roslan boys' initial hostility, Mela's and Alex's debates over the choices they've made. After the war, the boys were sent to their father in Israel; the authorities' callous disregard of their bond with the Roslans is a bitter taste of war's lingering injustice. A fine, authentic account of quietly sustained heroism of the highest order. Afterword. (Kirkus Reviews)
