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I Want You to Know We're Still Here

A Post-Holocaust Memoir

By: Esther Safran Foer

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I Want You to Know We're Still Here

A Post-Holocaust Memoir

By: Esther Safran Foer

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST • “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post “Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America’s leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist.”—Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther’s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation—that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust—Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther’s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.

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0525575995

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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

By: Esther Safran Foer

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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

By: Esther Safran Foer

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply important testament for Ashkenazi Jews. Her memories are our important history.’ Robert Peston, ITV Political Editor

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HarperCollins UK

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0008297630

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I Want You to Know We're Still Here

A Post-Holocaust Memoir

By: Esther Safran Foer

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Remembering the Holocaust

Generations, Witnessing and Place

By: Esther Jilovsky

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Remembering the Holocaust

Generations, Witnessing and Place

By: Esther Jilovsky

An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering the Holocaust shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next. Through the discussion of a range of memoirs and novels, including Landscapes of Memory by Ruth Kluger, Too Many Men by Lily Brett, The War After by Anne Karpf and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Remembering the Holocaust reveals the pivotal yet complicated role of place in each generation's writing about the Holocaust. This book provides an insightful and nuanced investigation of the effect of the Holocaust upon families, from survivors of the genocide to members of the second and even third generations of families involved. By deploying an innovative combination of generational and literary study of Holocaust survivor families focussed on place, Remembering the Holocaust makes an important contribution to the field of Holocaust Studies that will be of interest to scholars and anyone interested in Holocaust remembrance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780936974

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Between Light and Storm

How We Live with Other Species

By: Esther Woolfson

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Between Light and Storm

How We Live with Other Species

By: Esther Woolfson

A landmark examination of the fraught relationship between humans and animals, taking the reader from Genesis to climate change. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership. Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love, and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639362770

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Remembering the Holocaust

Generations, Witnessing and Place

By: Esther Jilovsky

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I Want You to Know We're Still Here

I Want You to Know We're Still Here

I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

I Want You to Know We're Still Here

I Want You to Know We're Still Here

Remembering the Holocaust

Remembering the Holocaust

Between Light and Storm

Between Light and Storm

Remembering the Holocaust

Remembering the Holocaust

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