LEADER 04552nam 22006373 450 001 9910159013203321 005 20210901203211.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001014460 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6040736 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6040736 035 $a(OCoLC)1156054392 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001014460 100 $a20210901d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheir Promised Land $eMy Grandparents in Love and War 210 1$aEast Rutherford :$cPenguin Publishing Group,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (248 pages) 311 $a0-698-41018-1 311 $a1-59420-438-1 327 $aDon't Like the Name -- First Love -- Going to War -- The Long Wait -- Safe Haven -- The Beginning -- The End of the Beginning -- Empire -- The Beginning of the End -- The End -- Epitaph. 330 2 $a"A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters back and forth. And write they did, often every day. In a way they were just picking up where they left off in 1918, at the end of their first long separation because of the Great War that swept Bernard away to some of Europe's bloodiest battlefields. The thousands of letters between them were part of an inheritance that ultimately came into the hands of their grandson, Ian Buruma. Now, in a labor of love that is also a powerful act of artistic creation, Ian Buruma has woven his own voice in with theirs to provide the context and counterpoint necessary to bring to life, not just a remarkable marriage, but a class, and an age. Winifred and Bernard inherited the high European cultural ideals and attitudes that came of being born into prosperous German-Jewish emigre families. To young Ian, who would visit from Holland every Christmas, they seemed the very essence of England, their spacious Berkshire estate the model of genteel English country life at its most pleasant and refined. It wasn't until years later that he discovered how much more there was to the story. At its heart, Their Promised Land is the story of cultural assimilation. The Schlesingers were very British in the way their relatives in Germany were very German, until Hitler destroyed that option. The problems of being Jewish and facing anti-Semitism even in the country they loved were met with a kind of stoic discretion. But they showed solidarity when it mattered most. As the shadows of war lengthened again, the Schlesingers mounted a remarkable effort, which Ian Buruma describes movingly, to rescue twelve Jewish children from the Nazis and see to their upkeep in England. Many are the books that do bad marriages justice; precious few books take readers inside a good marriage. In Their Promised Land, Buruma has done just that; introducing us to a couple whose love was sustaining through the darkest hours of the century"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJews$zEngland$zLondon$vBiography 606 $aJews, German$zEngland$zLondon$vBiography 606 $aJews, German$xCultural assimilation$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aSpouses$zEngland$zLondon$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vBiography 606 $aLove-letters$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aHISTORY / Jewish$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical$2bisacsh 615 0$aJews 615 0$aJews, German 615 0$aJews, German$xCultural assimilation 615 0$aSpouses 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aLove-letters 615 7$aHISTORY / Jewish. 615 7$aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. 676 $a305.892/404210922 B 686 $aHIS022000$aHIS037070$aBIO006000$2bisacsh 700 $aBuruma$b Ian$0322370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159013203321 996 $aTheir Promised Land$92892172 997 $aUNINA