Read The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey

The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey

Roger Cohen

4.9/5 (26865 ratings)

Description:An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, 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—to the racism his parents witness in apartheid-era South Africa, to the familiar ostracism an uncle from Johannesburg faces after fighting against Hitler across Europe, to the ambivalence an Israeli cousin experiences when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank.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. Graceful, honest, and sweeping, Cohen’s remarkable chronicle of the quest for belonging across generations contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey. To get started finding The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0307741419

Description: An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, 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—to the racism his parents witness in apartheid-era South Africa, to the familiar ostracism an uncle from Johannesburg faces after fighting against Hitler across Europe, to the ambivalence an Israeli cousin experiences when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank.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. Graceful, honest, and sweeping, Cohen’s remarkable chronicle of the quest for belonging across generations contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey. To get started finding The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey

The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey

More Books

The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble

Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble

Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo

Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo

The New York Times Columnists: Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, Nicholas D. Kristof, Roger Cohen, William Kristol, David Brooks, William Safire

The New York Times Columnists: Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, Nicholas D. Kristof, Roger Cohen, William Kristol, David Brooks, William Safire

Here Is New York

Here Is New York

An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics

An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics

In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

The Girl From Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey by Roger Cohen (2016-01-28)

The Girl From Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey by Roger Cohen (2016-01-28)

La bibliothèque mensuelle des sportifs: nos champions n°1 - Louis Bobet, Robert Cohen, Roger Marche

La bibliothèque mensuelle des sportifs: nos champions n°1 - Louis Bobet, Robert Cohen, Roger Marche