{"id":39185,"date":"2024-03-12T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=39185"},"modified":"2024-03-12T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:46:31","slug":"review-of-chance-by-uri-shulevitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=39185","title":{"rendered":"Review of Chance, by Uri Shulevitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chance<\/p>\n

Escape from the Holocaust<\/em><\/p>\n

by Uri Shulevitz<\/p>\n

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020. 330 pages.
\nReview written March 22, 2021, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

When Uri Shulevitz was four years old, bombs fell on Warsaw, where he lived with his parents. But Uri\u2019s father was in Bialystok, where he had found work. A chance encounter led to him not returning to Nazi-occupied Poland, but instead writing to his wife to come with Uri to Bialystok. They were Jewish, and all their family who stayed in Warsaw were killed during the war.<\/p>\n

This book tells about Uri\u2019s life as a very young refugee. A series of apparently chance encounters led them deeper into the Soviet Union. A clerk would not grant them Soviet citizenship because of Uri\u2019s name. Uri was actually named after the father of Bezalel, the first artist of the Bible. But the clerk thought he was named after a Zionist poet and they were anti-Soviet reactionaries.<\/p>\n

Not having Soviet citizenship meant they had to move farther from the border. Since Uri is an artist, the book is full of illustrations and has large print, and we\u2019re given a clear view of what it\u2019s like to be a refugee when you\u2019re too young to really comprehend what\u2019s going on. They spent much of the war in Settlement Yura in the far north, and much of the war in Turkestan, far east of the border, and much of the war, wherever they were, hungry.<\/p>\n

Although the book is long, with the large print and the abundant illustrations, it makes for quick reading. Since he was a child when the events took place, he has no trouble speaking on a child\u2019s level and talking about things children are interested in.<\/p>\n

He was eleven by the time the war was over and they got out of the Soviet Union. So this is also the story of growing up and the seeds that were planted that led to him becoming an artist.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chance Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020. 330 pages. Review written March 22, 2021, from a library book Starred Review When Uri Shulevitz was four years old, bombs fell on Warsaw, where he lived with his parents. But Uri\u2019s father was in Bialystok, where he had found work. A chance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,12,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43449,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185\/revisions\/43449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}