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Holocaust survivors’ stories saved of Holocaust Survivors,” Mandelbaum said. “I had just come back from Israel, where I This year’s Inter national attended, with my father, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, First World Gathering of Jewon Jan. 27, will mark 80 years ish Holocaust Survivors.” since the liberation of the AusMandelbaum and others chwitz-Birkenau concentration interviewed survivors and camp, the largest of the Ger- camp liberators on Long Island, man Nazi concenin New York City tration camps and and in Israel, from extermination cen1982 to 1995. ters. “It’s a validaOver a period of tion, this idea that 14 years beginning I had 40 years ago, in 1982, the Second and we already Generation of have had the most Long Island — a success in having group of descenthe collection dants of immiwidespread, and grants from Gernow (its) being many and other housed on Long E u ro p e a n c o u n Island is very tries in the late important to me,” 19th and 20th cenMandelbaum said. turies — made a “T his is very series of docuimportant, as ments focusing on SYd MANdELBAUM many of the subHolocaust survijects were Nassau vors and their libCounty residents.” erators. Cedarhurst resident The Holocaust Memorial and Syd Mandelbaum, the son of Tolerance Center of Nassau two survivors, led the project County, in Glen Cove, now own after creating the organization the rights to the digital collecin 1981. tion of documentaries. “I founded Second Genera“We’ve been using them and tion of Long Island, Children ContInued on paGe 8
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Isaac Rudansky, of Cedarhurst, is the author of “Georgie Summers and the Scribes of Scatterplot,” which will be released on Feb. 4 and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Cedarhurst author’s 500-page draft becomes published novel By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Calling all middle-grade fantasy adventure lovers: a new book by a local author checks all those boxes. Isaac Rudansky, of Cedarhurst, is the author of “Georgie Summers and the Scribes of Scatterplot,” a book for children ages 8 to 12 — middle-grade readers — who are fans of the Percy Jackson and Harry Potter series. The book is a product of so-called hybrid publishing, in which costs are shared by the author and a publisher, and will be released on Feb. 4 and distributed in more than 60 bookstores and on Amazon by Simon & Schuster. Rudansky, 37, grew up in Huntington, in an
Orthodox Jewish home with no television, and he regularly rode his bike to the Huntington Public Library, where he read Stephen King books. “Reading all of those books nurtured my creativity and instilled this thirst for good stories,” Rudansky said. “Reading good stories led to writing good stories, and I eventually made a career out of it.” After high school, he had no interest in going to college, and instead went to a rabbinical seminary for a couple of years before taking a gap year in Israel. He was attending a program at Hofstra University and selling art at the time. He started writing 13 years ago. “We had this cottage behind where I grew up in Huntington — it was a very old neighbor who lived there,” Rudansky recalled. “I ContInued on paGe 7
e already have had the most success in having the collection widespread, and now (its) being housed on Long Island is very important to me.