LEADER 06853cam a2200985 i 4500001 272566 005 20240621233753.0 008 151116s2016 nyuab b 001 0ceng 010 2015043408 019 934086214950250275 020 9781594204388 |q(hardback) 020 1594204381 |q(hardback) 020 9780698410183 020 0698410181 024 8 40025632999 035 (OCoLC)ocn908176080 035 272566 037 |bPenguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 |nSAN 201-3975 042 pcc 043 e-uk-en 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dGK8 |dON8 |dCDX |dZHB |dFM0 |dBUR |dCOO |dSTF |dVP@ |dZCU |dYUS |dGBVCP |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dOCLCF |dXFG |dS3O |dSFR |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dMYL |dTXSVP |dOCLCQ |dNFR |dOCLCA |dB@L |dOCLCO |dLKC |dOCLCO |dDKC |dLMJ |dOCLCO |dBOS |dOCLCO |dUTP |dOCLCO |dNZAUC |dOCLCO |dLD4 |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO 050 00 DS135.E6 |bA1176 2016 100 1 Buruma, Ian. 245 10 Their promised land : |bmy grandparents in love and war / |cIan Buruma. 264 1 New York, New York : |bPenguin Press, |c[2016] 300 305 pages : |billustrations, map ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 2 "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters back and forth. And write they did, often every day. In a way they were just picking up where they left off in 1918, at the end of their first long separation because of the Great War that swept Bernard away to some of Europe's bloodiest battlefields. The thousands of letters between them were part of an inheritance that ultimately came into the hands of their grandson, Ian Buruma. Now, in a labor of love that is also a powerful act of artistic creation, Ian Buruma has woven his own voice in with theirs to provide the context and counterpoint necessary to bring to life, not just a remarkable marriage, but a class, and an age. Winifred and Bernard inherited the high European cultural ideals and attitudes that came of being born into prosperous German-Jewish emigre families. To young Ian, who would visit from Holland every Christmas, they seemed the very essence of England, their spacious Berkshire estate the model of genteel English country life at its most pleasant and refined. It wasn't until years later that he discovered how much more there was to the story. At its heart, Their Promised Land is the story of cultural assimilation. The Schlesingers were very British in the way their relatives in Germany were very German, until Hitler destroyed that option. The problems of being Jewish and facing anti-Semitism even in the country they loved were met with a kind of stoic discretion. But they showed solidarity when it mattered most. As the shadows of war lengthened again, the Schlesingers mounted a remarkable effort, which Ian Buruma describes movingly, to rescue twelve Jewish children from the Nazis and see to their upkeep in England. Many are the books that do bad marriages justice; precious few books take readers inside a good marriage. In Their Promised Land, Buruma has done just that; introducing us to a couple whose love was sustaining through the darkest hours of the century"-- |cProvided by publisher. 500 Includes index. 505 0 Don't Like the Name -- First Love -- Going to War -- The Long Wait -- Safe Haven -- The Beginning -- The End of the Beginning -- Empire -- The Beginning of the End -- The End -- Epitaph. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Schlesinger, Bernard, |d1896-1984 |vCorrespondence. 600 10 Schlesinger, Winifred, |d1897-1986 |vCorrespondence. 600 10 Buruma, Ian. 650 0 Jews |zEngland |zLondon |vBiography. 650 0 Jews, German |zEngland |zLondon |vBiography. 650 0 Jews, German |xCultural assimilation |zEngland |zLondon. 650 0 Spouses |zEngland |zLondon |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1914-1918 |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vBiography. 650 0 Love-letters |zEngland |zLondon. 650 7 HISTORY |xJewish. |2bisacsh 650 7 HISTORY |xModern |x20th Century. |2bisacsh 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |xHistorical. |2bisacsh 600 17 Buruma, Ian. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00122553 600 17 Schlesinger, Bernard, |d1896-1984. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01941760 600 17 Schlesinger, Winifred, |d1897-1986. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01941761 611 27 World War (1914-1918) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180746 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 7 Jews. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983135 650 7 Jews, German. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983458 650 7 Jews, German |xCultural assimilation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983459 650 7 Love-letters. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01003069 650 7 Spouses. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01130842 650 7 Judar. |2sao 650 7 Första världskriget 1914-1918. |2sao 651 7 Storbritannien |zLondon. |2sao 648 7 1914-1945 |2fast 648 7 1914-1918 (första världskriget) |2sao 653 0 Schlesinger, Bernard, 1896-1984Correspondence 653 0 Schlesinger, Winifred, 1897-1986Correspondence 653 0 JewsEnglandLondonBiography 653 0 Jews, GermanEnglandLondonBiography 653 0 Jews, GermanCultural assimilationEnglandLondon 653 0 SpousesEnglandLondonBiography 653 0 World War, 1914-1918Biography 653 0 World War, 1939-1945Biography 653 0 Love-lettersEnglandLondon 653 0 Buruma, Ian 655 4 Biographies. 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Biography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 Personal correspondence. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919948 655 7 Records and correspondence. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423917 655 7 Personal correspondence. |2lcgft 655 7 Biografi. |2saogf 655 7 Korrespondens. |2saogf 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 776 08 |iOnline version:Buruma, Ian. |tTheir promised land. |dNew York : Penguin Press, 2016 |z9780698410183 |w(DLC) 2015045219 856 42 |3Table of contents |uhttp://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781594204388.pdf |qpdf/application 852 0 |bstacks |hDS135.E6 |iA1176 2016