Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes
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Beschreibung:
In this book, Aronowicz explores the lives of her parents, who lived through the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the post-war Communist world, with much migration in between. Through stories about her childhood, she investigates larger questions about memory, Judaism, politics, and religion.
Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author's growing up—from Poland to Belgium and from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States. The book also moves between past and present. The authors' parents, Jews from Eastern Europe, lived through the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the post-war Communist world, and much migration in between. How were these events transmitted to their child, and what questions do they give rise to today? The book moves between straightforward story-telling and reflections on memory, on politics and religion, and on literature. It seeks the genesis of intellectual interests in personal story.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Charles Péguy and Romain Gary—A Quasi-Academic Exploration of Memory
1. Myth of Origins
2. Communism
3. Jewish
4. Mental Illness
5. Money
6. Russian Friendships
7. Theological Fragments
Postscript: Talking to Myself about Literature
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