Where Memory Leads: My Life
✍ Scribed by Friedländer, Saul
- Book ID
- 109013226
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Series
- When Memory Comes
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781590518106
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✦ Synopsis
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Holocaust literature,When Memory Comes
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Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedlander returns with WHEN MEMORY COMES: THE LATER YEARS, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. After abandoning his youthful conversion to Catholicism, he rediscovers his Jewish roots as a teenager and builds a new life in Israeli politics.
Friedlander's initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. He struggles to process the ubiquitous effects of European anti-Semitism while searching for a more measured approach to the Zionism that surrounds him. Friedlander goes on to spend his adulthood shuttling between Israel, Europe, and the...
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