Sequence Of Events In The Old Testament

Eliezer Shulman was born in Bessarabia in 1923. At the age of 16, he planned to immigrate to Israel on an illegal immigrant convoy, but was prevented from carrying out his plans by the outbreak of World War II. Instead of coming to Israel, he was exiled to Siberia. It was only in 1975 that Shulman was allowed to leave Siberia with his family to settle in Isarel. In Siberia, Shulman began to work as a blacksmith, then as a tractor\-driver, a railway\-worker, a senior engineer, and finally the manager of a planning department. Throughout his long years of exile, Shulman did not give up his Jewish national values. He taught Hebrew Bible, Jewish History, and Zionism to his two Siberian\-born daughters. Father and daughters secretly engaged in the teaching of Hebrew, and infused many students with a Jewish\-national consciousness. They traslated Israeli songs into Russian, and helped create an Israeli atmosphere in the remote cold North. In order to teach and examine the Bible, Shulman developed a graphic chronology and genealogy of the Pentateuch. This monumetal work details the major characters and events mentioned in the Bible. Prof. Haim Gevaryahu, Chairman of the Israel association for Biblical research, describes the work as an excellent, many\-faceted tool for understanding the national and spiritual sources of the Jewish people.