Poet Karen Gershon (1923-1993) opens ""A Tempered Wind"", the sequel to volume 1 of her autobiography ""A Lesser Child"", in 1943. It begins tragically with the death of Karen's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the Kinder-transport mission. ""A Tempered Wind"" proceeds to chart the difficult period from 1939 to 1943 as Karen adapts to a new culture and undertakes the complicated passage from adolescence to adulthood in the British...
Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman is the first intellectual biography of this remarkable Egyptian-Jewish intellectual, whose work has secured her place in literary pantheon as a herald of Levantine, Mediterranean, and transnational culture. Growing up Jewish in cosmopolitan Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s, Jacqueline Kahanoff experienced a bustling Middle East enriched by diverse languages, religions, and peoples who nonetheless were deeply connected to each other through history, business, da...
In 1977, Sue Course discovered a box of airmail letters in the dark recesses of a cupboard, written in German. Her German was rusty, but she could see that most were from her parents and grandparents and were written from the time of the Nazi invasion of Vienna in 1938. The letters revealed a gripping tale of their war and that of their extended family, the stories of those who escaped and eventually resettled across the globe, and their experiences in that process. The story was fleshed out thr...
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film ""An engrossing and memorable tale.""Jewish Book World ""The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange beyond belief."" --The Times (London) International acclaim for Solomon Perel's Europa Europa ""The wrenching memoir of a young man who survived the Holocaust by concealing his Jewish identity and finding unexpected refuge as a member of the Hitler Youth. ""It is a Holocaust memoir that is moving, strai...
The Moral Lives of Israelis explores the last ten years of life in Israel, a sixty-one-year-old country that has never not been in a state of war. The last words given to David Berlin by his father, a Sabra who had fought for Israel's independence, were not words of love for his son and his grandchildren, but this command: "Look after my little country." These words set off a huge voyage of exploration and remembrance for Berlin. The result is a thrilling blend of memoir, reportage and orig...
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been forced into ghettos and facing extermination, Krystyna Chiger's family daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. "The Girl in the Green Sweater" is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of fourteen months in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov. "The Girl in the Green Sweater" is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savious. A polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family surv...