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Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520271258 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 07/26/2011 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 392 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsPrefacePart One“We would not have come without you,” 19981 / “Where are you from?” 2 / Vienna of the East 3 / Strolling the Herrengasse 4 / The Idea of Czernowitz 5 / “Are we really in the Soviet Union?” 6 / The Crossroads Part TwoThe Darker Side, 20007 / Maps to Nowhere 8 / The Spot on the Lapel 9 / “There was never a camp here!” 10 / “This was once my home” Part ThreeGhosts of Home, 200611 / The Persistence of Czernowitz 12 / The Tile Stove Epilogue, 2008Chernivtsi at Six Hundred Notes Selected Readings IndexWhat People are Saying About This
"[This] monumental book . . . is a stunning marriage of intellectual curiosity and personal search. [It] reads with the poignancy of memoir, yet in a collective voice. . . . The overarching authorial voice is nuanced and reflective but also informed. "Pri's the World
"Hirsch and Spitzer expose the complex layers that inform our understanding of the past."Jewish Book World
"Unique . . . Ghosts of Home collects the fragments of one place and provides us with an artifact that is as close as we will ever come to 'perfect rest.'"Tikkun Magazine
"An interesting volume."German Studies Review
"The ability to observe, evaluate, and contextualize habits and specific objects is one of the greatest strengths of this book."Austrian History Yearbook