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Autore: | Finkler Kaja |
Titolo: | Lives lived and lost [[electronic resource] ] : East European history before, during, and after World War II as experienced by an anthropologist and her mother / / Kaja Finkler and Golda Finkler (posthumously) ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum |
Pubblicazione: | Boston, : Academic Studies Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (346 pages ) : illustrations (black and white) |
Disciplina: | 947.00092 |
Soggetto topico: | Anthropologists - United States |
World War, 1939-1945 | |
Jews - Germany | |
Altri autori: | FinklerGolda <1903-1991.> |
Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-341) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- PART I. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE -- Chapter 1. My Childhood and Youth: In the House of My Grandparents -- Chapter 2. The War Begins -- Chapter 3. Working in a Slave Labor Ammunition Factory -- Chapter 4. Working in a Slave Labor Factory in Germany: Liberation and Return to Chaos -- PART II. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE -- Chapter 5. On Being a Refugee in the Land of Gold -- PART III. IN MY VOICE -- Chapter 6. A Child-Adult Remembers Home, War, Loss, and Liberation -- Chapter 7. The Child Becomes an Adult -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Mother's World and Our Family before World War II -- Appendix 2. Hasidism -- APPENDIX 3. Genealogy -- APPENDIX 4. Prayers and Calendar of Jewish Holidays Reconstructed by Golda Finkler in Hasag-Leipzig -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother's and daughter's separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformative period in Eastern Europe and opens a window to the crucial events of that epoch. The challenge of the narratives provides the urgency of the story and the richness of the historical record. It is also an unforgettable story of love, loss, and longing for family engulfed by war. The book will resonate with those interested in the lives of individual women and children; scholars, and students of history, gender, and religion, especially Hasidism, and with mainstream readers in this and future generations unfamiliar with life during the first half of the twentieth century in Europe. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Lives lived and lost |
ISBN: | 1-61811-116-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785874803321 |
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