The Girl From Human Street : : Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
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Circle of disquiet -- Bones in the forest -- Gin and two -- In the barrel -- Château Michel -- Picnic in a cemetery -- Patient number 9413 -- Jews in a whisper -- Madness in the brain -- The lark sings and falls -- Death in the Holy Land -- The ghosts of repetition -- A single chain.
An ... intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement, and disquiet. The award-winning New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own family--most notably his mother's--in order to understand more profoundly the nature of modern Jewish experience. Through his emotionally lucid prose, we relive the anomie of European Jews after the Holocaust, following them from Lithuania to South Africa, England, the United States, and Israel. He illuminates the uneasy resonance of the racism his family witnessed living in apartheid-era South Africa and the ambivalence felt by his Israeli cousin when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank. He explores the pervasive Jewish sense of 'otherness' and finds it has been a significant factor in his family's history of manic depression. This tale of remembrance and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national) both tells an unflinching personal story and contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life"--Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 304 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307594662
0307594661
SUBJECTS
Cohen, Roger -- Family.
Jews -- Lithuania -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Biography.