Our Holocaust
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611091209 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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As Amir grows up, his obsession with understanding the Holocaust remains with him, and finally Old Enough to know, the unforgettable cast of characters that populate his world open their hearts, souls, and pasts to him Translated by Jessica Cohen from the Hebrew Shoah Shelanu.. Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. The intrepid pair won't let this stop them, and their quest for knowledge results in adventures both funny and
All rights reserved. Hazel RochmanCopyright © American Library Association. The kids are forbidden to ask about past secrets, but when they are "Old Enough," they hear the horrific memories in graphic detail. From Booklist Eloquently translated from the Hebrew, and written by the child of Holocaust survivors, this haunting first novel, a prizewinner in Israel, brings the history very close now. Why the panic when someone knocks at the door? Why does crazy Uncle Hirsch ask obsessively, "Only saints were gassed?" Always there is the dark humor of the old folks' grudges, miserliness, and daily lunacy. The spare accounts of unspeakable brutality, suffering, and sacrifice stay with you, and so do the big questions. The savagery of Nazi criminals is documented; why have so many never been punished? And what about the officials who were only doing their jobs? As the narrator fetches his kid from kindergarten today, he wonders about the people on the street: Who
A must read! Israeli prize winner Amir Gutfreund debuts with an astonishing chronicle of two young children's abilities and inabilities to understand what happened "over there" in Our Holocaust.The author takes the stage as a fictional character along with Effi, the only other child on Katznelson Street in Kiryat Haim. As members of the second-and-a-half generation to the Shoah (the Holocaust), t. "Thank you Amir Gutfreund" according to Shells. An absolute must-read. "there isn't as much black and white in the world as we would like." p. Thank you Amir Gutfreund An absolute must-read. "there isn't as much black and white in the world as we would like." p. 371. This book touched me deeply and I am grateful to Amir Gutfreund for taking the time to do this. An important work.. 71. This book touched me deeply and I am grateful to Amir Gutfreund for taking the time to do this. An important work.. Best "Second-and-a-half" Generation Book Ever If Elie Wiesel's "Night," is fiction, then "Our Holocaust," by Amir Gutfreund fits into the same category. I have waited a long time for a book as well-written as this one, on a subject that is never, ever funny. All one can hope for as a reader is to get an unsentimentalized picture that makes one consider a fuller perspective on the subject. Gutfreund does this, and more.Gutfreund
His honors include the Sapir Prize, the Buchman Prize from the Yad Vashem Institute, the Sami Rohr Choice Award from the Jewish Book Council in 2007, the Prime Minister’s Prize for Creative Works in 2013, and the Ramat-Gan Prize for Literature in 2015 for his novel The Legend of Bruno and Adela.. Amir Gutfreund was a multi-award-winning Israeli novelist. Born in Haifa in 1963, he studied applied mathematic