Vera Schwarcz

In the Crook of the Rock

Jewish Refuge in a World Gone Mad -- The Chaya Leah Walkin Story

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin--one little girl from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland-- this book illustrates the inner resources of the refugee community that made possible survival with dignity. Based on a wide variety of sources and languages, this book is crafted around the voice of a child who was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland and start the terrifying journey to Vilna, Kobe and Shanghai. The Song of Songs is used to provide an unexpected and poetic angle of vision upon strategies for creating meaning in times of historical trauma"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117861
• ISBN-10: 1618117866
• Artikelnr.: 51810082

Autorenporträt

Vera Schwarcz was born in Romania and became an historian of China and a poet in the United States. For the past four decades she taught at Wesleyan University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her work was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fullbright Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Lady Davis Fellowship. Schwarcz is the author of nine books about Chinese and Jewish history, including "Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory" (Yale University Press, 1989) which was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and "Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014). She has also written six books of poetry, including most recently "The Physics of Wrinkle Formation" (Antrim House, 2015). For more information about her work, visit between2walls.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A Voice Knocks: Chaya Leah Walkin¿s Story Finds Me      
Acknowledgements        
Introduction
The Virtue of One Vineyard: Jewish Refuge Reconsidered                    
 
Chapter One
If She Be a Wall: Pohost and Lukatch Before Disaster Strikes        
Chapter Two
Watchmen Patrolling the City: Escape from Vilna to Japan        
Chapter Three
An Apple Tree Nestled in the Woods: Respite in Kobe                        
       
Chapter Five
Tender Kids Beside the Sheperds' Tents: Starting Anew in Shanghai          
               
Chapter Five 
In the Crook of the Rock: Expanding The Meaning of Survival                
       
Chapter Six
The Vine has Budded: Schooling, Bombings, and Beyond
Chapter Seven
Under the Apple Tree: End of the War, End of Refuge in Shanghai          
Chapter Eight
Before the Shadows of Night Are Gone: Starting a New Life in America      
           
Chapter Nine
Until it Ripens: Marriage, Community, and the Arc of Return                
     
Conclusion
Seeking Your Voice for the Sake of the Unborn
Bibliography