- Summary
- "This is an engrossing anthology of twenty chapters. Each one tells a different story about what it means to grow up in the shadow of the Holocaust and to then to find a way of breaking free of the residual darkness of childhood by making a physical and emotional journey back into the past, to the 'home' of one's ancestors; the 'home' they were forced to physically leave. Some of these journeys are undertaken with a parent. Others are undertaken with friends or partners and some venture back alone. Along the way, new connections are forged with the living and with the dead, with the past and the present. The book is a page turner, each story more gripping than the last. Together with an introduction and epilogue the whole book provides not only examples of the lived experience of being 'second generation' but also offers some theoretical background to the stories and relates them to current and important themes such as the role of acknowledgment, memorialization and commemoration. With eighty million people around the world currently displaced by disaster, war and famine, many these stories speak for descendants of refugees and survivors of all such catastrophes"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]
- Contents
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Foreword: Home is where the heart is / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
'Heimish' at last / Janet Eisenstein
Kraków - A visit with my mother to her hometown / Naomi Levy
Lost in transportation / Tina Kennedy
Faraway country, faraway time? / Vivienne Cato
Living with humiliation / Teresa von Sommaruga Howard
Mein shtetele Turek / Elaine Sinclair
The only house that was built for me / Diti Ronen
Terežin 2000 / Rosemary Schonfeld
Exploring German Jewish roots in Berlin / Marian Liebmann
Letter from Bratislava / 1976 / Vivian Hassan-Lambert
The dawn of realization / Oliver Hoffman
Into the stream of history / Diana Wichtel
Shards of the past / Zuzana Crouch
Black milk and word light / Monica Lowenberg
Only a two-hour flight / Barbara Dresner
Opening doors / Merilyn Moos
I joined the dots and the dots joined me / Nik Pollinger/Pöllinger
Haunted, or at home? / Gina Burgess-Winning
Three unexpected ceremonies / Peter Bohm
Compass points in a nomadic life / David Clark.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Clark, David, 1946 April 8- editor.
Howard, Teresa von Sommaruga, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: Home is where the heart is / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz -- 'Heimish' at last / Janet Eisenstein -- Kraków - A visit with my mother to her hometown / Naomi Levy -- Lost in transportation / Tina Kennedy -- Faraway country, faraway time? / Vivienne Cato -- Living with humiliation / Teresa von Sommaruga Howard -- Mein shtetele Turek / Elaine Sinclair -- The only house that was built for me / Diti Ronen -- Terežin 2000 / Rosemary Schonfeld -- Exploring German Jewish roots in Berlin / Marian Liebmann -- Letter from Bratislava / 1976 / Vivian Hassan-Lambert -- The dawn of realization / Oliver Hoffman -- Into the stream of history / Diana Wichtel -- Shards of the past / Zuzana Crouch -- Black milk and word light / Monica Lowenberg -- Only a two-hour flight / Barbara Dresner -- Opening doors / Merilyn Moos -- I joined the dots and the dots joined me / Nik Pollinger/Pöllinger -- Haunted, or at home? / Gina Burgess-Winning -- Three unexpected ceremonies / Peter Bohm -- Compass points in a nomadic life / David Clark.
