A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity. "One seems to glimpse a human soul," Levi wrote in If This Is a Man, "but then Henri's sad smile freezes in a cold grimace, and here he is again, intent on his hunt and his struggle; hard and distant, enclosed in armor, the enemy of all."
Now, after fifty years, Steinberg speaks for himself. In an unsparing act of self-scrutiny, he traces his passage from artless adolescent to ruthless creature determined to do anything to live. He describes his strategies of survival: the boxing matches he staged for the camp commanders, the English POWs he exploited, the maneuvers and tactics he applied with cold competence. Ultimately, he confirms Levi's judgment: "No doubt he saw straight. I probably was that creature, prepared to use whatever means I had available." But, he asks, "Is it so wrong to survive?"
Brave and rare, Speak You Also is a profound and necessary addition to the body of Holocaust writing: a survivor's reckoning with culpability and survival.

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

Biographies & Memoirs

Steinberg, Paul

Community & Culture

Picador

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Allen Lane.

In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity. "One seems to glimpse a human soul," Levi wrote in Survival in Auschwitz, "but then Henri's sad smile freezes in a cold grimace, and here he is again, intent on his hunt and his struggle; hard and distant, enclosed in armor, the enemy of all." Now, after fifty years, Steinberg speaks for himself. In an unsparing act of self-examination, he traces his passage from artless adolescent to ruthless creature determined to do anything to live. He describes his strategies of survival: the boxing matches he staged for the camp commanders, the English POWs he exploited, the maneuvers and tactics he applied with cold competence. Ultimately, he confirms Levi's judgment: "No doubt he saw straight. I probably was that creature, prepared to use whatever means I had available." But, he asks, "Is it so wrong to survive?" Brave and rare, Speak You Also is an unprecedented response to those dreadful events, bringing us face-to-face with the most difficult questions of humanity and survival.

Speak You Also: A Holocaust Memoir

Historical

Metropolitan Books

U.S. communities depend on reliable, safe, and secure rail systems. Each weekday, more than 12 million passengers take to U.S. railways. This book explains a framework for security planners and policymakers to guide cost-effective rail-security planning, specifically for the risk of terrorism. Risk is a function of threat, vulnerability, and consequences. This book focuses on addressing vulnerabilities and limiting consequences.

Securing America's Passenger-Rail Systems

Business & Money

Eisman, Mel

Jackson, Brian A.

Riley, Jack K.

Wilson, Jeremy M.

Industries

RAND Corporation

Examines the health care needs of newly released California prisoners; the communities most affected by reentry and the health care safety net of those communities; the critical roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and the effects of reentry on the children and families of incarcerated individuals. Recommends how to improve access for this population in the current fiscal environment.

Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California: State-of-the-State Report

Politics & Social Sciences

Turner, Susan

Davis, Lois M.

Miyashiro, Lisa

Derose, Kathryn Pitkin

Nicosia, Nancy

Overton, Adrian

Fain, Terry

Williams, Malcolm V.

Williams III, Eugene

Social Sciences

Hurry Moon, Book one of the Heartsense trilogy continues as Dalton Hunter and Sienna Snow have finally met face to face. The connection shared in Dalton’s dreams has developed into a channel that keeps the pair linked continuously. It is a link that holds even more magic, but is not without drawbacks. Now that Sienna has arrived in New York City, there are plans to be made, a home to furnish and new careers for both of them. Having been forced out of his job at Fashion Expose Magazine, Dalton begins the task of opening his Dream Brink photography studio while Sienna opens an office for her parent’s corporation. Each of them brings family members and friends into their slowly growing circle as they prepare for a fall wedding. Not everything is blissful. Dalton’s recently ended relationship with Samantha Choice has left some hard feelings behind and a growing animosity in the person of Tony Choice, her father. The strength that Dalton and Sienna find in each other will be tested as a circle of alliances and rivals threatens their happiness.

A Trace Of Echoes (Heartsense Trilogy)

Romance

Contemporary

Paul Steinberg

Staring in the face of prostate cancer at age thirty-five and metastatic disease and proposed surgical castration at age forty, Paul Steinberg was forced to take two simultaneous journeys. The first was to transition from doctor to patient and surrender his physical health to a medical establishment he knew from firsthand knowledge would be using approaches that would be outdated within a few years. The second was a spiritual journey. His search for a higher meaning in his life sent him as far as walking over hot coals with Tony Robbins. Using the salamander as his role model, Steinberg, a college-health and sports psychiatrist, takes a look at the evolution of the regenerative capabilities of cold-blooded vertebrates like the salamander and at what we as humans have lost and gained in our warm-bloodedness. How do human beings regenerate? How do we redeem ourselves when our capacity for regeneration is limited? How did the prostate evolve, and how does prostate cancer develop? With wit and humor, Steinberg tackles lust and sex, and ultimately time and death and the gods. Having lived longer than virtually anyone else with metastatic prostate cancer, he uses his knowledge as a doctor and experience as a patient to provide a story of endurance and perseverance, weaving a tale of grace, regeneration, and redemption—just not the kind of regeneration and redemption that he or anyone else would expect.

A Salamander's Tale: My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer

Professionals & Academics

Skyhorse

I still look over my shoulder, wherever I am, I relive the violent bullying I encountered as a kid. I am now in my 7th decade, a cancer survivor, an advocate and mentor for homeless teens, a husband/father/grandfather and dog rescuer. This is the prequel to my next book that will come out in May. This is a story told, from the perspective of a boy, who faced incredible odds and got lost so many times along the way. I got in with the wrong group of people. I dropped out of school. I only cared about making money and wanted all the nice things, I never could afford. I wanted to be accepted for me, but I had no idea who I was or how to find that acceptance. This is a story about growing up in Montreal, facing bullying and racism, being poor, being a punching bag and finally fighting back, peacefully, thoughtfully, not just for myself but for anyone who has ever felt less than. The more we all share our stories of our upbringings and the remnants of which we carry the rest of our lives, the more awareness we bring to the causes, the pain and the need for change.

School of Hard Luck: A Memoir of Money and Morals

Parenting & Relationships

Independently published

This book began with Paul Steinberg’s realization that although religions are struggling to meet the needs and trends of our modern age, spirituality is not. Its contemporary manifestations continue to thrive, and Jews can be found throughout all varieties of spiritual leadership in America. Facing the fact that, for whatever reason, Jewish leaders simply have not done a good job of translating the ancient, spiritual wisdom of their beliefs into contemporary language and images that resonate with mass appeal, Rabbi Steinberg knew that the faith of his fathers was ready for a new spiritual message. And so he has written it―a message that is both particular to Judaism and uses Jewish language and text as starting points for a view that is universal enough to include spiritual concepts, terms, and expressions from many other spiritual traditions. Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach provides both a language and a set of Jewish spiritual principles that are accessible and integrated with contemporary life, as well as being deep and authentically real (i.e., not “dumbed down” for anyone). It is a work that emerged out of Rabbi Steinberg’s own personal experiences, pains, and spiritual journey―the trials and growth documented in his highly successful book Recovery, the 12 Steps, and Jewish Spirituality. There are not a lot of works like this. There are books on Jewish scholarship, history, and theology. But books on Jewish spirituality tend usually to focus on a particular motif, such as the feminine, grief, aging, or Kabbalistic biblical interpretations. Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach presents its message through the psycho-spiritual world view of 2018 but without the language and narrative of a therapist. It is an important contribution to the spiritual-seeking community at large, to Jews who have become alienated from their faith, and to anyone interested in learning more about what a historically vibrant spirituality can bring to today’s troubled world.

Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Terra Nova Books

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