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Before It’s Too Late: A Love Letter to My Daughters and America
Imagine having to leave the only home you’ve ever known because of rising prejudice against your ethnicity.
Eric Rozenberg grew up in Belgium, surrounded by rising anti-Semitism. In 2013, fearing for the safety of their children, he and his wife, Elsa, chose to leave everything behind and emigrate to the United States. Before It’s Too Late is Eric’s love letter to his daughters. It details European events since the 1980s, the rise of anti-Semitism, the Rozenberg family’s history, and how all of this led them to decide to leave Belgium for the future of their girls.
It is also a love letter to America. Well researched, compelling, intimate, and moving, this legacy book shares why Eric and his family consider their adopted home the greatest country on Earth—and why they are concerned about what they are witnessing in the United States today.
Eric Rozenberg grew up in Belgium, surrounded by rising anti-Semitism. In 2013, fearing for the safety of their children, he and his wife, Elsa, chose to leave everything behind and emigrate to the United States. Before It’s Too Late is Eric’s love letter to his daughters. It details European events since the 1980s, the rise of anti-Semitism, the Rozenberg family’s history, and how all of this led them to decide to leave Belgium for the future of their girls.
It is also a love letter to America. Well researched, compelling, intimate, and moving, this legacy book shares why Eric and his family consider their adopted home the greatest country on Earth—and why they are concerned about what they are witnessing in the United States today.
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October 8, 2022
Eric Rozenberg’s legacy book to his teenage daughters is a wide-ranging and eye-opening, historical and current affaires overview of anti-Semitism, wrapped in a moving family biography, explaining their decision and journey to leave Belgium for the USA. With the premise in mind that “what starts with the Jews, never ends with the Jews”, he quotes extensively from multiple sources (footnoted) and offers poignant analysis which is typically not developed in the mainstream press. Publishing for a wider audience his forewarning perspective, in all its unvarnished authenticity and audaciousness, is bound to open the reader’s aperture and to make them aware of - and hopefully act against – creeping incremental acceptability of anti-Semitism, or any “-ism” for that matter, “before it’s too late”.
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