Full Circle: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412806623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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She writes skillfully enough to keep the personal story intriguing. --Mark Bauerlein, The New Criterion "This displaced child of Europe lost neither her European savoir faire nor her admiration for those elements of the continent's intellectual tradition that in her academic career she sought to interpret to her adopted countrymen. However interesting the political moments, the most powerful images in Full Circle emerge from her own life. "Edith Kurzweil has lived many lives and prevailed against tremendous odds. But Kurzweil refused to identify herself as a victim, choosing instead to view adversity as a useful challengeThe real jewel is this book, and the memories and insights it contains." --Phyllis Chesler, Midwest Book Review "An engaging personal memoirWe have the pol
He was founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary History and other publications. Laqueur taught at Georgetown, Harvard, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, and Tel Aviv University.Edith Kurzweil is the former editor of Partisan Review and the author of, among other works, Full C
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Her fantasies of reunion with her parents in New York kept her going but came to naught: she had not expected to fall from a wealthy childhood into the life of the working-class poor, as a millinery apprentice or a diamond cutter. In between, she kept moving on and interrogating the world around her.The reader follows Kurzweil on her perilous journey, at the age of fourteen, to Belgium, through France, Spain, and Portugal, alone with her younger brother. It ends with the author finding herself in the new century. The author eventually became a professor of sociology and quickly climbed up the academic ladder. Her early writings prompted William Phillips, co-founder and editor of Partisan Review, to invite her into the elite circle of New York intellectuals. This is a personal hi