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11%OFFJoanna Wiszniewicz - And Yet I Still Have Dreams - 9780810118140 - V9780810118140
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And Yet I Still Have Dreams

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Description for And Yet I Still Have Dreams Paperback. This work is based on interviews with "Alex", an anonymous survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and three concentration camps, following his life from a childhood in a family of assimilated Jews to his coming to terms as an older man with his memories. Translator(s): Grol, Regina. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
And Yet I Still Have Dreams is a departure from many Holocaust memoirs. Angry, pugnacious, contemptuous of the stereotypes found in some survivor literature, and honest about the shortcomings of its characters, the book is based on interviews with ""Alex,"" an anonymous survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and three concentration camps, following his life from a childhood in a family of assimilated Jews to his coming to terms as an older man with his memories. The book spares neither the reader nor Alex's own family a connection to seldom-discussed, and unflattering, aspects of the Holocaust: the gulf between rich and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Jewish Lives S.
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810118140
SKU
V9780810118140
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About Joanna Wiszniewicz
JOANNA WISZNIEWICZ is a writer and researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Her main field of interest is the identity formation among children of Holocaust survivors raised in Poland. She is currently at work on a book on this subject and has also previously written another book entitled From Poland to Israel: Interviews with the 1968 Generation ... Read more

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