Shlomo (Salomon) LIberman is a graduate engineer who emigrated from Sweden to Israel, worked for many years in the hi-tech industry and upon retirement joined the Shaindy Rudoff Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His publications have appeared among others in the Blue Lyra Review, the Forward, the Jewish Literary Journal and Esra Magazine.
He is the co-author of an English-Swedish dictionary of electro-technical terms, author/co-author of eight international patents and received the IEEE Power Engineering Society Award for Most Noteworthy Paper in 1980. He holds an MSc degree from the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, a Top Executives MBA from Tel Aviv University as well as an MA in English Literature & Linguistics from Bar-Ilan University. He is a proofreader, editor, and freelance translator between English, Hebrew and Swedish. He is a member of the international freelance translator community ProZ.com and of ITA, the Israel Translators Association, and a contributing member of the ESRA Magazine Editorial Board. His first book, Lost Memories and New Beginnings – Unearthing Family Secrets from the Holocaust, was published by Hadassa Word Press in 2018.
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In Shlomo's review of East West Street: On the Origins
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of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity he says that even if you are not interested in the legal complexities of human rights, this book is a “must read” as a family memoir.
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Shlomo tells an amazing story which shows how everything
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in Jewish life is interconnected. The actions of a Jewish textile merchant from Sweden led to a lifelong friendship which then, when the son of the Swedish merchant became Rabbi Steinsaltz’s right-hand man, resulted decades later in the printing of the Commentary on Pirkei Avot in Chinese.
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The beloved Yiddish author who used the pseudonym Shalom
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Aleichem had a very colorful life with many ups and downs in his lifetime career. In this brief biography Shlomo has traced his steps to and from Europe and the US. He says Shalom Aleichem was a supreme Jewish humorist, who invented modern Jewish archetypes, myths, and fables of unequaled imaginative potency and universal appeal
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Hetman Symon Petliura was a Ukrainian journalist and
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nationalist leader who was seen as being responsible for most of the atrocities against Jews carried out by his armies. He was assassinated by Sholem Schwarzbard whose relatives were among the many Jews massacred. His trial in 1927 was sensational - he was acquitted on grounds that he was avenging the deaths of victims.
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You can’t but chuckle as engineer Shlomo Liberman
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shares his forty-year journey that took him from the rabbi’s testicles and hemorrhoids in Sweden, to a successful, post-retirement career in writing in Israel.
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One of the interesting newcomers on the Tel-Aviv food
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scene is a Swedish bakery called FIKA. Starting out with kanelbullar, Swedish for special cinnamon rolls, the bakery soon grew and now includes a number of branches in Tel Aviv
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The contents of an unused synagogue from Sweden were
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donated to a Raanana synagogue, but import duties made it impractical to bring them to Israel. What to do? The solution involved creative thinking, a move on paper of the contents to Denmark and a few bottles of Slivovitz.
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A courageous Ecuadorian Consul General, Muñoz Borrero,
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in Sweden saved many Jews in Europe during World War II by issuing 250 false passports. Borrero suffered personally as a result, but was posthumously bestowed the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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Stamp Collector Lawrence Fisher created a thematic
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exhibit on the Arab-Israeli conflict and has won many awards. In 2008, he created an exhibit called The Jewish Homeland which he recreated in 2013 as The Jewish Homeland - Our Struggle for Survival. In 2015, this exhibit was shown in Germany and was awarded ‘European Champion of History’.
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