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The Forefathers: A Dictionary of Biography of the Jews of Australia 1788-1830
Levi, John Simon
Book Number: 63591
ISBN: 0959995919
Publisher: Australian Jewish Historical Society, 1976.
8vo. softcover. 139pp. Very good. Spine & covee edges faded. A special publication of the Australian Jewish Historical Society. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. This copy #334.
Price: $95.00
Levi, John Simon
Book Number: 63591
ISBN: 0959995919
Publisher: Australian Jewish Historical Society, 1976.
8vo. softcover. 139pp. Very good. Spine & covee edges faded. A special publication of the Australian Jewish Historical Society. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. This copy #334.
Price: $95.00
After Long Silence: A Woman's Search for Her Family's Secret Identity
Fremont, Helen
Book Number: 29293
ISBN: 0749919787
Publisher: Piatkus Books, 1999
8vo hardcover 322pp. very good / very good d/w. Review: In her mid-thirties, Helen Fremont discovered that, although she had been raised in the Midwest of the US as a Catholic, she was in fact the daughter of Polish Jews whose families had been exterminated in the Holocaust. Fremont's tender but unsparing memoir chronicles the voyage of discovery she took with her older sister, ferreting out information from Jewish organisations and individuals, worrying about its impact on their angry, overpowering father and reticent, nightmare-plagued mother. nnFremont has the courage to paint a nearly unsympathetic portrait of her parents' secretiveness and initial reluctance to have their children dredge up the past; as the narrative unfolds, readers comprehend the tormented roots of their behaviour, without forgetting the psychological problems it created for their daughters. Fremont's recreation of her parents' ghastly ordeals--her mother narrowly escaping the murder of nearly every Jew in her hometown; her father surviving six years in the Soviet gulag--is a triumph of dogged research and sympathetic imagination. Her book tells a deeply American story of identity lost and reclaimed, complete with Fremont coming out to her parents as a lesbian, yet it also achieves understanding of the dark European past and its icy grip on her family. --Wendy Smith nnSynopsisnHelen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic in America, only to discover in adulthood that her parents were Jews who survived the Holocaust. Delving into the secrets that held her family together in a bond of silence for more than forty years, she recounts a remarkable tale of survival.
Price: $15.00
Fremont, Helen
Book Number: 29293
ISBN: 0749919787
Publisher: Piatkus Books, 1999
8vo hardcover 322pp. very good / very good d/w. Review: In her mid-thirties, Helen Fremont discovered that, although she had been raised in the Midwest of the US as a Catholic, she was in fact the daughter of Polish Jews whose families had been exterminated in the Holocaust. Fremont's tender but unsparing memoir chronicles the voyage of discovery she took with her older sister, ferreting out information from Jewish organisations and individuals, worrying about its impact on their angry, overpowering father and reticent, nightmare-plagued mother. nnFremont has the courage to paint a nearly unsympathetic portrait of her parents' secretiveness and initial reluctance to have their children dredge up the past; as the narrative unfolds, readers comprehend the tormented roots of their behaviour, without forgetting the psychological problems it created for their daughters. Fremont's recreation of her parents' ghastly ordeals--her mother narrowly escaping the murder of nearly every Jew in her hometown; her father surviving six years in the Soviet gulag--is a triumph of dogged research and sympathetic imagination. Her book tells a deeply American story of identity lost and reclaimed, complete with Fremont coming out to her parents as a lesbian, yet it also achieves understanding of the dark European past and its icy grip on her family. --Wendy Smith nnSynopsisnHelen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic in America, only to discover in adulthood that her parents were Jews who survived the Holocaust. Delving into the secrets that held her family together in a bond of silence for more than forty years, she recounts a remarkable tale of survival.
Price: $15.00
