Susan Suleiman Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood 9781503634817

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Автор: Susan Suleiman
Название: Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
ISBN: 9781503634817
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Мемуары

Социальная история и история культуры

Иудаика

ISBN-10: 1503634817
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 23.05.2023
Серия: Stanford studies in jewish history and culture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 27 halftones
Размер: 148 x 225 x 27
Ключевые слова: Memoirs,Social & cultural history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,HISTORY / Jewish,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Подзаголовок: Traces of an immigrant girlhood
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Поставляется из: Англии
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A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evoke to tell the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In this coming-of-age story that probes the intergenerational complexities of immigrant families and the inevitability of loss, Susan looks to her own life as an example of how historical events shape our private lives.

After the Nazis marched into Hungary in 1944, five-year old Susan learned to call herself by a Christian name, hiding with false papers in Budapest with her parents. While her relatives in the provinces would be among the 450,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz, Susans close family survived and even thrived in the years following the war. But when the Communist Party took over Hungary, Susan and her parents emigrated to Chicago by way of Vienna, Paris, Haiti, and New York. In her adult life as a prominent feminist professor, she rarely allowed herself to think about these chapters of her past—but eventually, when she had children of her own, she found herself called back to Budapest, unlocking memories that would change the direction of her scholarship and career.

At the center of this richly textured memoir is a little girl who grows up happy despite the traumas of her early years, surrounded by a loving family. As a teenager in the 1950s, she is determined to become 100% American, until a post-college year in Paris leads her to realize that her European roots and Americanness can coexist. At once an intellectual autobiography and a reflection on the nature of memory, identity, and home, Daughter of History invites us to consider how the objects that underpin our lives become gateways to our past.

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Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood, Susan Suleiman