JHSSA in partnership with the Calgary JCC Jewish Book Festival is pleased to host Peter Usher’s talk on his new book:
Joey Jacobson’s War: A Jewish Canadian Airman in the Second World War
Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 11:00 am at the Calgary JCC
Usher’s work is a labour of love, inspired by the letters and diaries written by his cousin Joey Jacobson during Jacobson’s World War II service.
Joey Jacobson’s War reflects the experience of the hundreds of highly trained volunteers who were sent by Canada in 1940 to serve in Britain’s Royal Air Force, nearly half of whom were killed or captured within a year. But more than that, Joey’s diary and letters provide an intimate understanding of his development as a young man and as an airman. Usher provides in-depth background information that helps put the airman’s story in its historical context. Accompanying excerpts from Joey’s father’s diary show the maturing of the relationship between father and son in a dangerous time.