Simon Spatz

A fascinating biography of the high-profile Jewish Nova Scotian businessman—a man who not only survived but thrived against all odds. In Simon Spatz , former journalism professor Michael Cobdon tells the remarkable story of a fighter, a survivor, an achiever, a man of extraordinary determination and spirit. After bringing his family out of poverty in Poland, surviving the Holocaust in an area where 97 per cent of Jews were murdered, and immigrating to Canada at nearly forty with little money and