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In this second book of her trilogy, Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, Helen Epstein reconstructs the lives of three generations of Central-European women: her great-grandmother Theresa; her grandmother Pepi and her mother Franci - all dressmakers. As in Children of the Holocaust, she creates a hybrid narrative that braids techniques of journalism, biography, and memoir, and provides a new perspective on the social and cultural history of Jewish women of the 19th and 20th centuries. "With this family history, Epstein adds a vivid and telling chapter to the reconstruction of Jewish women's history, one life at a time. The settings range from the Bohemian town of Brtnice; to the Belle Epoque Vienna of assimilated Jews; to newly independent and cosmopolitan Prague in the 1920s, where Pepi ran a fashion salon; to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and finally New York. It is a compelling account, one that any woman trying to recover her history will value." - Kirkus Reviews "In Epstein's expert and sensitive hands, truth becomes not only stranger than fiction, but more magnetic, wise and powerful." - Gloria Steinem "Written with her superb talent for storytelling, her tale is profoundly human." - Elie Wiesel
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Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search For Her Mother's History, Helen Epstein
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- Released
- 2021
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Helen Epstein
- Publisher
- Lost Research
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN13
- 9798985192513
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Czech Literature, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Military History, American Literature, World War II, Gifts for women, Gifts for grandma, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish Literature, Women's Biographies, Sagas, Searching in the Past
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- Where She Came From
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- In this second book of her trilogy, Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, Helen Epstein reconstructs the lives of three generations of Central-European women: her great-grandmother Theresa; her grandmother Pepi and her mother Franci - all dressmakers. As in Children of the Holocaust, she creates a hybrid narrative that braids techniques of journalism, biography, and memoir, and provides a new perspective on the social and cultural history of Jewish women of the 19th and 20th centuries. "With this family history, Epstein adds a vivid and telling chapter to the reconstruction of Jewish women's history, one life at a time. The settings range from the Bohemian town of Brtnice; to the Belle Epoque Vienna of assimilated Jews; to newly independent and cosmopolitan Prague in the 1920s, where Pepi ran a fashion salon; to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and finally New York. It is a compelling account, one that any woman trying to recover her history will value." - Kirkus Reviews "In Epstein's expert and sensitive hands, truth becomes not only stranger than fiction, but more magnetic, wise and powerful." - Gloria Steinem "Written with her superb talent for storytelling, her tale is profoundly human." - Elie Wiesel