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fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \n# DA ALT GESHIKHTEM\n\n(THE OLD STORIES)  \nDAVID SELCER  \nCopyrightC2019 David Selcer  \n# In Memory of Lester Selcer\n\nISBN:978-1-62249-479-8  \nPublished byBiblio PublishingColumbus,OhioBiblioPublishng.com  \n# Table of Contents\n\nPrefaceivPrologueOne5Two10Three17Four26Five38Six46Seven58Eight66Nine75Ten83Eleven89Twelve96Thirteen105Fourteen113Fifteen123Sixteen132Seventeen143Eighteen151Nineteen158Twenty170Twenty-One177Twenty-Two183Twenty-Three192Twenty-Four199Tweny-Five208Twenty-Six213Twenty-Seven219Twenty-Eight228Epilogue233  \n工  \n# Preface\n\nForced migrations are a salient feature of the presentcentury,as they were in the last century.Only the reasons,the countries of origin,and the countries where sanctuary issought are different.Treatment of downtrodden immigrantswhen forced to migrate has been the same for over 125 yearsfor the most part.Blocked passage,refusal of entry,theseparation of children from parents,legal barriers,lowpaying jobs,or interment in displaced persons camps haveoccurred everywhere,including the United States,regardlessof who the immigrants are or where they come from.  \nIn the first third of the 20th Century millions of Jewsentered the United States from Russia fleeing pogroms andother injustices,Chinese people and other East Asians  \nentered as laborers,and millions of Italians and Slavs enteredfrom central and southeastern Europe looking for betterlives.In the middle of the 20th Century thousands of Jewsfled Europe for Palestine before Israel came into being.  \nNow,in the first third of the Twenty-First Century,hundredsof thousands of Mexicans,and Central Americans havecrossed the borders illegally into the United States.  \nThe Old Stories is about an immigrant and about forcedimmigration.It falls into the category of historical fiction.Yet all its main characters lived,in fact,under the samenames they carry in the book,although some were lateranglicized at the hands of immigration officers and others.The circumstances and surroundings the book's charactersfind themselves in really happened,and they are all  \nDavid Selcer  \nhistorically correct,although experienced in many cases bypeople other than the book's characters.  \nThe protagonist of The Old Stories,Chaim Zelitzerha'Levi,a/k/a Hyman Zeltzer,comes to Canada from theUkraine during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05,via anunconventional route--through Siberia and across the PacificOcean.He has deserted the Russian Navy at Vladivostokduring the first great wave of immigration out of the RussianEmpire before Soviet Communism.  \nWhen he finally reaches the United states,he chooses toaid Jews participating in the last years of the second andgreatest wave of immigration to Palestine,known as \"AliyahBet.\"They are from Eastern Europe(Poland,Lithuania,  \nLatvia,Hungary,Rumania and Russia).World War Two hasjust ended and the people Zeltzer is saving are from theconcentration camps.  \n\"Palestine\"in this book means the part of British  \nMandatory Palestine that became the State of Israel on May  \n15,1948.\"Palestinian\"means a Jew who lived in that area.  \n\"Aliyah Bet\"was a clandestine movement that broughtJews from Europe to Palestine by sea from 1934 to 1948.The British called it illegal immigration and tried to preventit.During the three year period from the defeat of the Nazisin 1945 and the establishment of the State of Israel in May1948,North American Jews,with the help of the Haganahwhich was the Jewish underground organization,purchasedwar surplus Coast Guard and other ships,as well as out-dated commercial vessels to transport holocaust survivors toPalestine.There were twelve of these ships,and they wereall purchased secretly and manned almost completely byNorth American Jews with Palestinian officers.  \nThe Tradewinds,later named the Hatikvah,was one ofthese vessels.In The Old Stories,Hyman Zeltzer sails onthis 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