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Rechtmäßiger Name
Birger, Wolf
Geburtstag
1926
Todestag
2011-06-06
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Israel
Geburtsort
Kovno, Lithuania
Sterbeort
Jerusalem, Israel
Wohnorte
Kaunas, Lithuania
Paris, France
Jerusalem, Israel
Frankfurt, Germany
Berufe
Leader, Jerusalem International Book Fair
public servant
Holocaust survivor
Beziehungen
Birger, Trudi (wife)
Kurzbiographie
Zev Birger, born to a Jewish family in Lithuania, was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.

After World War II, he married Trudi Simon and emigrated to Israel. The couple had three sons. He worked as director of light industries at the Israeli Ministry for Industry and Trade, then as deputy director of the ministry and as executive director of the Economic Council on Printing and Publishing. He then became head of the Israel Film Center. He lived in Paris for several years as head of the office of International Creative Management and Film Marketing.

In 1983, he became director of the Jerusalem International Book Fair. He endeared himself to publishers, editors and writers, who urged him to publish an autobiography, which appeared in English as No Time for Patience in 1990.

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I found this memoir to be quite lacking and very shallow. It's basically just a summary of the author's life, without the specific detailed incidents that make memoirs memorable. It's short, only 150 pages, and of those only about 100 are about Birger's life during the Holocaust. The final section, where the author talks about his career in Israel, was a mistake -- who cares about that?

In the introduction, Birger says there is a lot he still can't bring himself to write about because it's just too painful. (In a telling detail, he said his war experiences so traumatized him that immediately after the war, virtually overnight, he completely forgot how to speak Lithuanian.) I think perhaps that although he wanted his story known, he just wasn't ready to do it justice.… (mehr)
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meggyweg | Dec 4, 2009 |

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