The girl from Human Street : ghosts of memory in a Jewish family / Roger Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohen, Roger--Family.

Cohen, Roger.

Jews--Lithuania--Biography.

Jews.

Families.

Lithuania.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Human Street

Ghosts of memory in a Jewish family

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Summary:

Award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them across continents and decades, mapping individual lives that diverge and intertwine, vital patterns of struggle and resilience, valued heritage and evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national), converge into a resonant portrait of cultural identity in the modern age. Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through to the present day, Cohen tracks his family's story of repeated upheaval, from Lithuania to South Africa, and then to England, the United States, and Israel. It is a tale of otherness marked by overt and latent anti-Semitism, but also otherness as a sense of inheritance. We see Cohen's family members grow roots in each adopted homeland even as they struggle to overcome the loss of what is left behind and to adapt. At the heart of The Girl from Human Street is the powerful and touching relationship between Cohen and his mother, that "girl." Tortured by the upheavals in her life yet stoic in her struggle, she embodies her son's complex inheritance.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Circle of disquiet

Bones in the forest

Gin and two

In the barrel

Château Michel

Picnic in a cemetery

Patient number 9413

Jews in a whisper

Madness in the brain

The lark sings and falls

Death in the Holy Land

The ghosts of repetition

A single chain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780307594662

0307594661

OCLC:

881279996