Home So Far Away - Berlowitz, Judith
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Klara Philipsborn has just side-stepped the rise of Nazism in Berlin for a promising job in Madrid when a fascist military coup draws her into a war that calls her to volunteer her skills as a nurse and translator, a war in which decisions of the heart, and of her very identity, may cost her more than she signed up for.

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Klara Philipsborn has just side-stepped the rise of Nazism in Berlin for a promising job in Madrid when a fascist military coup draws her into a war that calls her to volunteer her skills as a nurse and translator, a war in which decisions of the heart, and of her very identity, may cost her more than she signed up for.
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Los Angeles-born author Judith Berlowitz had just retired from her Spanish-teaching position at Oakland's Mills College when her genealogical research uncovered a Gestapo record mentioning a relative, Clara Philipsborn, who was the only woman anti-fascist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War from the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The few details of the report led to more research, which led to Home So Far Away. In addition to her career teaching Spanish and world cultures, and a stint as a tour guide, Judith is a card-carrying translator and has published in the field of ethnomusicology (Sephardic balladry) and Jewish identity. She sang for years with the Oakland Symphony Chorus and is now a member of the San Francisco Bach Choir. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, not far from her three daughters and three grandsons.