Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 068485757X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Berger frequently interrupts his own story with shorter anecdotes in the voices of his parents, who tell stories about their families and their childhoods that both enhance and illuminate the primary story. From Publishers Weekly In Proustian fashion, this memoir begins with a flood of memories triggered by a seeded roll, a staple of Manhattan bakeries that was an early childhood treat for the author, who, along with his parents and brother, was a Polish-Jewish refugee living on New York's Upper West Side in the 1940s. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Written in simple, elegant prose, the book largely focus
Very evocative and good witnessing HDoutLA Berger's memories of his childhood are amazingly crisp and there can never be too many accounts of the tales of survivors; as a second generation person from New York, I recognize his parents very well.. Bruce J. Wasser said sensitive, poignant memoir about Holocaust/American roots. New York Times journalist Joseph Berger has created a masterful, evocative and moving account of the ever-present duality of his life: his identity as an acculturated American child of Holocaust survivors. This duality gives his account of his mother's life and his own evolution from a bewildered refugee child into an accomplished American a poignancy and power. "Displaced Persons" will stand as an important contribution, not only to our understanding of the long-term i. Displaced Persons: "From the Particular to the Universal" Penny This book resonates on many levels. It is a compelling and vivid narrative detailing the acculturation of Holocaust survivors in New York City, specifically, during the immediate post-war period. But this is no dry text. You feel the bewilderment of these brave souls as they desperately try to make a home for themselves in their newly adopted country while, at the same time, deal with the perpetual anguish of searing, catastrophic loss of family, country, and hope (or f
He illuminates the plight of 140,000 refugees who came to America between 1947 and 1953, through the eyes of a young boy. An account of how one family of Polish Jews, with one son born at the close of World War II and the other son born in a "displaced persons" camp on the margins of Berlin, narrowly survived Hitler's atrocities and managed to emerge anew amid the bewildering landscape of Manhattan's Upper West Side and the Bronx in the 1950s and 1960s. Joseph Berger recreates his parent's experiences in light of his own childhood among refugees in America. The book captures the poignant shading, the telling minutae and the stubborn intractability o