num_pages: 120
description: The adventures of 'Tom Sawyer' with an ironic, Yiddish twist."WINNER -- 2001 MPA -- "Excellence In Independent Publishing" Award.OFFICIAL Selection CANNES Film Festival 2011 for this memoir's first short story, My Father, Joe...filmed by Nikila Cole.The adventurous, humorous, sometimes wonderfully strange exploits of a youth during his family's adjustment to a new world, these compelling boyhood memories are of an almost Tom Sawyer character, albeit with ironic Yiddish twist."All the short stories within this memoir illuminate and pack a wallop. They sparkle and shine in Engelhard’s unique minimalist style…prose that is lean, reserved and economical…if there is one word to describe Engelhard’s writing, I’d choose CHARM. What a gift to those of us who understand the trials and triumphs of growing up. Escape From Mount Moriah…the finest, perhaps the greatest memoir I have ever read." Reviewer S. Dite
language: English
title: Escape from Mount Moriah: Memoirs of a Refugee Child's Triumph
titlecomplete: Escape from Mount Moriah: Memoirs of a Refugee Child's Triumph
genres: Biography, Holocaust, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 182
publisher: ComteQ Publishing