Jids

“JIDS” is the most insulting and humiliating word for Jews.
In USSR you have heard this word almost daily. Jews were always ready to do and did as much as they could to
please the people, government, and country they lived.
They were the most intelligent, educated, kind, and loving minority. In spite of this, they were the most hated, abused, humiliated, discriminated part of any country through the whole history of mankind.
My book is about a poor, uneducated Jewish family with three children living in Ukraine under terrible anti-Semitic repressions. The main hero is my father, Zunya Birger, who was a religious person managed to gave his children the highest education. The two daughters became M.D. and the son became a violinist with great achievements in former USSR and in Israel. That only happened because his beliefs in Mighty God and energetic efforts to find unbelievable ways to achieve his goals. My parents’ devotion, love to each other, and readiness to sacrifice everything for their children made them exemplary Jewish characters. My father told us: “There are no closed doors for a Jew. You have to seek eagerly to find your way to open them”. Those words have always been with me.