New Lives: Surviivors of the Holocaust Living in America
by Dorothy Rabinowitz
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- Paperback
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0380017962
- ISBN 13
- 9780380017966
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Contents appear as new, unopened & unblemished in wraps displaying no significant surface/edge wear, as shown.
Selected by Book-Of-The-Month-Club. Kirkus Review: Conversations with over 100 "newborn" Americans, Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps, interlaced and spun through events to produce a work of poetic reportage that transcends the interview-investigation format. A half-dozen key life histories build up around a grim touchstone: the 1972 deportation hearings of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a Vice-Kommandant of the Maidanek camp before re-surfacing as a Queens, New York housewife. Nightmare testimony of starvation and torture, memories of less fortunate parents, brothers, and sisters--the horrors share space with adventures of escape, liberation, immigration, and settlement. From Auschwitz, Belsen, and Dachau to Kew Gardens, Kansas City, Memphis, and Corpus Christi; some American-dream overnight successes, but mostly recitals of hard-won acclimatization, perpetual restlessness, and lingering questions: Why did the survivors survive? Luck? Skill? Personality? Should the Jews have shown more resistance? Could it happen again? In America? Rabinowitz' formal, unhurried phrases and self-effacing restraint encourage us to trust her selection of representative voices, her choices between direct quotation and seamless paraphrase, and her careful maneuvers--sympathetic but wary--through the homes and minds of strangers. Only in a clumsily injected re-hash of the Eichmann controversies does the author's fierce partisanship intrude. The publisher's blurb--"A major addition to the literature of the Jewish experience"--is off the mark. The soloists may be Jews, but this masterfully orchestrated cantata is no more sectarian than the Book of Job. RARE
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #2816-32318
- Title
- New Lives: Surviivors of the Holocaust Living in America
- Author
- Dorothy Rabinowitz
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380017962
- ISBN 13
- 9780380017966
- Publisher
- Avalon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- November 1977
- Pages
- 240
- Keywords
- Holocaust
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