Escape from Mount Moriah Memoirs of a Refugee Child's Triumph

Jack Engelhard was born in Toulouse, France on July 20, 1940. His father Noah had trained as a rabbi from his birthplace in Poland, but did not practice in France where he instead prospered as a leather goods manufacturer...until the Nazis invaded. Jack and his family escaped into the wilderness across the Pyrenees, wondering which way to turn next until they made their way into Spain. "My father saved many lives because he was friends with the local police chief who had been given the 'lists' of which Jews were to be deported by the nazis. He tipped off those Jewish families, in many cases providing them with money for their escape--in fact that's the reason we later arrived in Montreal broke--father had given away his fortune for others to live." Jack settled in the Philadelphia area in the 1960s where he edited his own newspaper in South Jersey, which led to his becoming a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer for over 15 years. He has written three produced plays and four novels. Jack's first book was The Horsemen (1974), followed by Indecent Proposal (1993), Deadly Deception (1997), and The Days of The Bitter End (1998). Indecent Proposal, from which the 1993 blockbuster movie starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson is based has been translated into twenty-two languages. "Ironically," says Jack, "it's been a bestseller in France and Germany--two countries that tried to wipe us out...blot out our names. And then a generation later, along comes this book and this movie from one who survived." Jack is a ranking belt in Israeli martial arts and has served in the Israeli Navy as an American volunteer. He currently resides in Southern New Jersey with his wife Leslie and their children David and Rachel.Engelhard, Jack is the author of 'Escape from Mount Moriah Memoirs of a Refugee Child's Triumph' with ISBN 9780967407487 and ISBN 0967407486.