Chava Rosenfarb was born in Lodz, Poland. She was a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto as well as the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She was the recipient of numerous literary prizes. In 1979, she was awarded the Manger Prize-the highest award for Yiddish literature-for her trilogy Tree of Life (Der boim fun leib).
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In cogent and evocative prose, translated from the Yiddish by the author, Rosenfarb describes the religious and politicial stew that was prewar Poland."" - Publishers Weekly ""A vivid story of life in a shtetl in the title village during the years immediately preceding WWII; specifically, it's a dramatization of the ethnic and religious traditions that form the characters of its winning protagonists, gentle Yacov and his beloved Binele. But the [book's] great character is Yacov's resourceful mother, Hindele Polin, a crafty widow whose hard-earned wisdom and plucky survival skills make her a worthy successor to the villager heroines of Sholom Aleichem's fiction."" - Kirkus Reviews