Explores various kinds and strata of secrets: intimate secrets and secrets of family past: the kinds of secrets that can be decoded from clues, and the kind that themselves seem to offer tantalizing c...
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As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. Through personal reflections and explorations of t...
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A memoir of the author who left her home in Cracow, Poland in 1959 when she was 13-years-old for a new life in America....
Se mere om bogen
Time has always been the great Given, a fact of existence which cannot be denied or wished away; but the character of lived time is changing dramatically. This book offers a look at life's ineffable e...
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Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist. Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets Anzor Islikhanov, a political exile from war-torn Chechnya. As their paths cross in several ci...
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Evokes the eclectic mosaic of the new Eastern Europe, while also reconstructing the turbulent experiences of the post-war decades and reflecting on the uses and misuses of historical memory. map...
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Before World War II, Bransk was a shtetl whose population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today there are no Jews. This title reconstructs the lost world of East European Jewry....
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