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historian and novelist
Allan Levine
"[Levine] has an easy style and can pack a wealth
of information into a brief essay."
—Publishers Weekly
Now available again!
Fugitives of the Forest
A new edition of Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War (1998) has been recently published in the United States (and distributed in Canada) by The Lyons Press, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press. This second edition includes a new introduction, addressing research on the history of Jewish partisans during the last decade. The book's publication coincides with the release of the major motion picture, "Defiance" (Paramount/Vintage) about the partisans and Tuvia Bielski and his brothers who saved 1,200 Jews in the forests of Belarus. The movie stars Daniel Craig (James Bond) as Tuvia Bielski as well as Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell and Alexa Davalos.
"I hope that Defiance will inspire [people] to learn more about the true story. They can read about it in Allan Levine's amazing book, Fugitives of the Forest. I couldn't believe these people's will to survive."— Actress Alexa Davalos, who plays Lilka Ticktin, the love and future wife of Tuvia Bielski.
"This is a story told just in time, for the many eye witnesses are dying every year now. But Levine carefully documents their accounts and reconstructs a powerful moment of triumph in the middle of the modern world's greatest catastrophe."— Doug Wead, U.S. presidential historian, philanthropist, and Special Assistant to U.S. President George H. W. Bush..
For more information about this book, click HERE.
Now Available
Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba
This 500-page comprehensive and accessible history of the Jews of Manitoba reflects what is already known about the community, introduces new material, and casts an eye at the 130-year history of Jews in Manitoba from the earliest days of settlement in 1880 up to the present. Coming of Age is the first book-length history of the Jews of Manitoba to be published in over thirty years. Published by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and designed by co-publisher Heartland Associates.
"Levine’s research is comprehensive, his style absorbing, and his love of his subject a tonic." —Sir Martin Gilbert, historian and official Winston Churchill biographer
"A fascinating historical account of one of the most creative Jewish communities on this planet. Well worth reading." —Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to Washington
"Coming of Age is a remarkable work. It is a mammoth book filled with riveting stories, striking illustrations and testimony to intensive research and careful thought. … The writing is clear lucid and sprightly … [and] the subjects come alive. … [Levine] is a great storyteller." —Winnipeg Free Press
"An incredible achievement." —The Jewish Post and News
Breaking News
- Watch for By the Hand of Destiny: A Biography of William Lyon Mackenzie King forthcoming from Douglas & McIntyre in 2012. This will be the first single popular history of King’s life, one of Canada’s greatest and most peculiar prime ministers, in more than thirty years.
Readers are invited to e-mail me at: Alevine@sjr.mb.ca
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