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Heavyweight : a family story of the Holocaust, empire, and memory / Solomon J. Brager.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Graphic Brager Heavyweight
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Van Pelt Library D804.195 .B734 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brager, Solomon J., author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brager, Solomon J--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Brager, Solomon J.
- Levi, Erich--Family--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Levi, Erich.
- Brager, Solomon J--Family--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Historians--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Historians.
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish families--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Jewish families.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust survivors' families--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Holocaust survivors' families.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Jewish LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- LGBTQ+ biographies.
- LGBTQ+ graphic novels.
- Autobiographical comics.
- Nonfiction comics.
- Graphic novels.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages : chiefly illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up with the heroic details of their ancestors' exploits. Their great-grandmother related how her husband, a boxing champion, thrashed Joseph Goebbels and cleared beer halls of Nazis with his fists, how she broke him out of an internment camp and carried their children over the Pyrenees mountains. But that story was never the whole picture; zooming out, everything becomes more complicated. Alongside the Levis' propulsive journey across Europe and to the United States, Brager distills fascinating research about the Holocaust and connected periods of colonial history. Heavyweight asks us to consider how the patterns of history emerge and reverberate, not as a simple chain of events but in haunting layers. Confronting the specters of violence as both historian and descendent, this book is an exploration of family mythology, intergenerational memory, and the mark the past makes on the present"-- Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Lynn Alison Wachman.
- ISBN:
- 9780063205956
- 0063205955
- OCLC:
- 1405364351
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