The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00RNDP73W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Poignant, beautifully crafted Jewish family saga Keith Wheelock I found this book a page turner, beautifully written with superb research and reporting. It is impossible to grasp fully such complex, multi-layered narrative in a single reading.On one level I found it an extraordinary saga of a Jewish family's history--displacement, assimilation, prejudice, survival, and expressing human love and anguish. Cohen dwelt on lost memories and how families often kept silent about fami. Deeply moving, beautifully-written and accurate account of the South African Jewish experience, across generations & continents eric hassall Through the vehicle of his family stories across generations and countries, Roger Cohen has captured the South African Jewish experience, from its origins in Eastern Europe - its depth, its richness, its difficulties and struggles. But the book covers much more than thisCohen's parents emigrate from Johannesburg to London, and his mother, June Cohen, develops a severe depressive illness. Mr Cohen postulates that t. Ignore the Times review MM Cohen succeeds in conveying the history of his family as it relocates from a small shtetl in Lithuania to South Africa at the turn of the century. He does so with accurate depiction of Jewish life in the new country against the background of the Afrikana control of the vast black population. Into this story he weaves, skillfully, the descriptions of family members, their personalities, foibles and differing attitu
Through his emotionally lucid prose, we relive the anomie of European Jews after the Holocaust, following them from Lithuania to South Africa, England, the United States, and Israel. He explores the pervasive Jewish sense of "otherness" and finds it has been a significant factor in his family's history of manic depression. This tale of remembrance and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national) both tells an unflinching personal story and contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.. The award-winning New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own family - most notably his mother's - in order to understand more profoundly the nature of modern Jewish experience. Cohen illuminates the uneasy resonance of the racism his family witnessed living in apartheid-era South Africa and the ambivalence felt by his Israeli cousin when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank