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In Search of Poetry, History, and Home

By: Isa Milman

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In Search of Poetry, History, and Home

By: Isa Milman

A haunting memoir of war, genocide, displacement, and a daughter’s search for the literary works of her mother’s murdered twin. Grieving the death of her mother in 2013, author Isa Milman embarked on a heart-wrenching journey to unravel a family mystery—the whereabouts of her aunt’s long-lost poems, published in Poland in the early 1930s—which evolved into a broader investigation of her family’s life before, during, and after the Holocaust. This powerful memoir chronicles a lesser-known chapter of the Second World War through the story of two sisters: Sabina, Isa’s mother, who survived the war, and Basia, Sabina’s twin, who did not. Exploring themes of loss and displacement, regeneration and resilience, Isa discovers how her own story is woven into the immense yet intricate tapestry of the Jewish experience. As she delves into her family’s history, accompanied by her husband, a native British Columbian, she travels to contemporary Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, and tries to reconcile her shifting appreciation of people and place, in a world where anti-Semitism and other forms of extremism are on the rise once again.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1772033847

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Between the Doorposts

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Between the Doorposts

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A daughter of survivors gives voice to the passion and pain of post-holocaust experience in this extraordinary first book of poetry by Isa Milman. Ancient Hebrew melodies sing of a family and life now lost, and the revelation of a new world, as the poet wrestles with identity and personal 'place.

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1894800451

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Prairie Kaddish

By: Isa Milman

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Prairie Kaddish

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Prairie Kaddish begins with the author’s serendipitous discovery of the Jewish graveyard at Lipton, Saskatchewan, a community of whose existence she’d previously been unaware. The incident triggers an exploration both archival and personal, for information about these people, and what their lives must have been like, and the resulting work of remembrance. The title also pays homage to Allan Ginsberg, the seminal mid- twentieth-century poet whose “Kaddish” to his mother had enormous influence on not only Isa Milman, but on American poetics in general. Prairie Kaddish works on many levels, the historical and the personal are intertwined, and the poetics are solid and occasionally dazzling. The poems are particularly moving because, whether personally revealing or plainly documentary, they cover difficult ground using a clean, unsentimental style. Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead, recited at the burial, during the seven days of mourning, and every year on the anniversary of the death. Every Jew knows Kaddish, it is the universal prayer. There are no more Jewish colonies, no more Jewish farmers on the prairies. It’s all gone – it’s hard to even find some of the cemeteries. Prairie Kaddish is an elegy for all that no longer exists, except through remembrance.

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Coteau Books

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In Search of Poetry, History, and Home

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