My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (995 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299231542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A photo of relatives in pre-war Vilna, “as much at ease as a Jew could be in Poland,” prompted musings about the Poles’ anti-Semitism, which eventuates in recollections of his mother’s desperate retreat in 1941 from the Polish-Soviet border to Vilna, where Germans were rounding up Jewish men for mass execution. In this book, that leads to flashbacks personalizing the horrors of the Holocaust. From Booklist Germany was, Raphael says, “a country I had sworn never to visit anywhere I turned in that country, I might face something that had belonged to a murdered relative.” But a book tour for his Holocaust-survivor novel The German Money (2003) took him there. Haunted by his mother’s experiences in a slave labor camp, he wondered whether forgiveness is possible. --Whitney Scott . Encompassing recollections of childhood with par
Jill Meyer said Fascinating. I've read everything Lev Raphael has written over the years. I am Jewish, but my family has been in the US for three, four, and five generations, on both sides. Other than hearing from my mother, a teenager in Chicago during the late Fascinating I've read everything Lev Raphael has written over the years. I am Jewish, but my family has been in the US for three, four, and five generations, on both sides. Other than hearing from my mother, a teenager in Chicago during the late 30's/early Fascinating Jill Meyer I've read everything Lev Raphael has written over the years. I am Jewish, but my family has been in the US for three, four, and five generations, on both sides. Other than hearing from my mother, a teenager in Chicago during the late 30's/early 40's, about her fam. 0's, about her fam. 0's/early Fascinating Jill Meyer I've read everything Lev Raphael has written over the years. I am Jewish, but my family has been in the US for three, four, and five generations, on both sides. Other than hearing from my mother, a teenager in Chicago during the late 30's/early 40's, about her fam. 0's, about her fam. "A multifaceted tour de force" according to Heidi. Lev Raphael's latest book, My Germany, is a multifaceted tour de force that is at once shocking, compelling, informative and deeply moving. Raphael recounts his parents' horrific experiences as victims of the Holocaust. He delves into their unspeakable suffering a. Brilliant New Memoir I savored this book until the very last page and even then, was sorry to put it down. This is a marvelous memoir, weaving a tapestry of multigenerational tragedy and survival, with acute and fascinating observations about the impact of history on the author's pare
While researching his mother’s war years after her death, he discovers a distant relative living in the very city where she had worked in a slave labor camp, found freedom, and met his father. Haunted by his parents’ horrific suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. Soon after, Raphael is launched on book tours in Germany and, in the process, redefines himself as someone unafraid to face the past and let it go.Bookmarks, “Top Ten Nonfiction Titles of 2009”. Those feelings shaped his Jewish identity, his life, and his career