Lives lived and lost : East European history before, during, and after World War II as experienced by an anthropologist and her mother / Kaja Finkler and Golda Finkler (posthumously) ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkler, Kaja.

Contributor:

Finkler, Golda.

Series:

Holocaust (Boston, Mass.)

Holocaust. History and literature, ethics and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropologists--United States--Biography.

Anthropologists.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jews--Germany--Biography.

Jews.

Finkler, Kaja.

Finkler, Golda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages ) illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother's and daughter's separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformative period in Eastern Europe and opens a window to the crucial events of that epoch. The challenge of the narratives provides the urgency of the story and the richness of the historical record. It is also an unforgettable story of love, loss, and longing for family engulfed by war. The book will resonate with those interested in the lives of individual women and children; scholars, and students of history, gender, and religion, especially Hasidism, and with mainstream readers in this and future generations unfamiliar with life during the first half of the twentieth century in Europe.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Foreword

Prologue

PART I. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE

Chapter 1. My Childhood and Youth: In the House of My Grandparents

Chapter 2. The War Begins

Chapter 3. Working in a Slave Labor Ammunition Factory

Chapter 4. Working in a Slave Labor Factory in Germany: Liberation and Return to Chaos

PART II. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE

Chapter 5. On Being a Refugee in the Land of Gold

PART III. IN MY VOICE

Chapter 6. A Child-Adult Remembers Home, War, Loss, and Liberation

Chapter 7. The Child Becomes an Adult

Epilogue

Appendix 1. Mother's World and Our Family before World War II

Appendix 2. Hasidism

APPENDIX 3. Genealogy

APPENDIX 4. Prayers and Calendar of Jewish Holidays Reconstructed by Golda Finkler in Hasag-Leipzig

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-341) and index.

ISBN:

1-61811-116-7

OCLC:

961531576