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War Widow by Ziva Bakman-Flamhaft

War Widow:
How The Six Day War
Changed My Life

War Widow: How The Six Day War Changed My Life, is a story that could have developed with similar characters anywhere in the world. The plot is unique but its themes are universal. The narrative begins in Poland and Lithuania, and moves along to Palestine, Israel, and the United States, depicting a bygone period of nation building, with its intense love and tragedy, and lives forever changed by conflict and war. It includes astonishing tales of fate and suspense under the watching eyes of the British, who controlled the area from 1922 to1948, and it traces the author’s personal history to the immigration of her family from Eastern Europe to Palestine, and her visits in 2008 and 2010 to her parent’s hometowns in Lithuania and Poland.

It depicts happy childhood summers in an era of romanticism and idealism, contrasting with winters, the season her mother suffered from deep depressions; and it describes life in her family’s small apartment and the memories of a simple and innocent childhood, portraying, too, her neighborhood, detailing traumatic events, such as abuse, abandonment, madness and suicide, and the way neighbors cared for each other.

Her schooldays are marked by her mother’s mental disorder; her years in high school and her mandatory military service reveal events that helped her formulate her sense of justice, perseverance, and leadership.

It describes her life as a young woman, leading up to her wedding to a man too popular among women. She brings to life the horrific scene when she sees her young husband burnt beyond recognition moments before his death, resulting from a direst Syrian hit on his armored vehicle hours before the Six-Day war is over. We shiver when she narrates her agony dealing with this profound tragedy and the consequential loss of their unborn child.


Koshan Forest, Lithuania

The book then moves forward with her first year of widowhood. Considered exceptionally “beautiful,” in that period she was pursued by men who looked at young widows as an easy prey. It tells about her romances with married men, powerful and charismatic, and her turning into an activist. But so enslaving is her love affair with one of the best known figures in Israel, that she decides to escape, leaving behind the life she knows.

She tells of her culture shock upon arriving in New York City and the agony of being raped by her fallen husband’s best friend. Ultimately she marries her American husband, stays in New York, and rebuilds her life.

It ends with an epilogue that is a tale of her journey in 1995-96 to Israel and the Palestinian Authority with a Fulbright scholarship, interviewing women, who like her were bereaved or aggrieved by war.

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Inspiring Stories - Widows or widowers

Professor Ziva Flamhaft discusses new book 'War Widow' - Read more: - Digital Journal

Author Appearance:  War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Talkradio, The Zev Brenner Show, January 3, 2021.  

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, JCC, Greenwich, Conn, May 8, 2019.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, JCC of Staten Island,
May 7, 2019.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Baltimore Chapter Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, October 16, 2018.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, CUNY Graduate Center, May 9, 2018.

“War Widow,” representing Israel’s I.D.F Widows & Orphans Organization, Congregation Beth Aaron, Teaneck, NJ, April 21, 2018.

Book reading: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Consulate of Israel Memorial Day ceremony, NYC, April 17, 2018.

Private book club, NY, NY, January 29, 2018.

Private book club appearance, War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, NYC, October 20, 2017.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Quogue Public Library, NY, October 8, 2017.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Hampton Bays Public Library, NY, October 7, 2017.

Private book club, War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life NY, NY, October 2, 2017.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Westhampton Free Library, NY, September 17, 2017.

Author Appearance: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life, Easthampton Public Library, NY, September 16, 2017.

Private book club, War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life Westhampton, NY, September 3, 2017.

 

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Dr. Ziva Flamhaft has one of the best political memoirs of 2017 - M

Dr. Ziva Flamhaft amazing on bold new memoir 'War Widow' - digital Journal

A war widow remembers - Jewish Standard

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