Louise Steinman

The Crooked Mirror (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A lyrical literary memoir that explores the exhilarating, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland today Although an estimated 80 percent of American Jews are of Polish descent, many in the postwar generation and those born later know little about their families' connection to their ancestral home. In fact, many Jews continue to think of Poland as a bastion of anti-Semitism, since nearly the entire population of Polish Jewry was killed in the Holocaust. The reality is more complex: although German-occupied Poland was the site of great persecution towards Jews, it was also the epicenter of European Jewish life for centuries. Louise Steinman sets out to examine the burgeoning Polish-Jewish reconciliation movement through the lens of her own family's history, joining the ranks of Jews of Polish descent who are confronting both Poland's heroism and occupation-afflicted atrocities, and who are seeking to reconnect with their families' Polish roots

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807050569
• Artikelnr.: 39935281

Autorenporträt

Louise Steinman is the author of the award-winning memoir The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War. For the past two decades, she has curated the ALOUD literary and performance series for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. She also codirects the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION : The Country in My Head ix
CHAPTER 1: The Memory Book 1
CHAPTER 2: Warum? Why? 6
CHAPTER 3: In Block 11 11
CHAPTER 4: Among the Living 18
CHAPTER 5: Wannsee 26
CHAPTER 6: Walking Papers 34
CHAPTER 7: A Young Man from Oswiecim 43
CHAPTER 8: Keys 50
CHAPTER 9: “Do You Miss Us?” Cabaret 57
CHAPTER 10: Poland, Peyote 67
CHAPTER 11: An Orange Room in L’viv 71
CHAPTER 12: “The Town That Unloved Me” 80
CHAPTER 13: In the Uniform of the Perpetrator 89
CHAPTER 14: Polonia on Trial 94
CHAPTER 15: A Chink in the Wall 102
CHAPTER 16: Saviors of Atlantis 109
CHAPTER 17: Liver and Onions, or the Last Jewish Butcher in Radomsko 119
CHAPTER 18: Interlude: Poland in Wyoming 130
CHAPTER 19: “It Costs You Nothing” 139
CHAPTER 20: Among the Odd Believers 148
CHAPTER 21: We Were the Neighbors 158
CHAPTER 22: A Mensch in Radomsko 168
CHAPTER 23: Venus in LA 177
CHAPTER 24: The Rosetta Stone 184
CHAPTER 25: The Seer 194
CHAPTER 26: La Bibliothèque Polonaise 208
AFTERWORD: The Story Continues 212
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 216
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 220