Where Memory Leads: My Life

Where Memory Leads: My Life

In this sequel to the classic work of Holocaust literatureÂ When Memory Comes, a Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian returns to memoir to recount this tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents
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Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, FriedlÃ¤nder returns with WHEN MEMORY COMES: THE LATER YEARS, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. After abandoning his youthful conversion to Catholicism, he rediscovers his Jewish roots as a teenager and builds a new life in Israeli politics.
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FriedlÃ¤nder's initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. He struggles to process the ubiquitous effects of European anti-Semitism while searching for a more measured approach to the Zionism that surrounds him. FriedlÃ¤nder goes on to spend his adulthood shuttling between Israel, Europe, and the United States, armed with his talent for language and an expansive intellect. His prestige inevitably throws him up against other intellectual heavyweights. In his early years in Israel, he rubs shoulders with the architects of the fledgling state and brilliant minds such as Gershom Scholem and Carlo Ginzburg, among others.
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Most importantly, this memoir led FriedlÃ¤nder to reflect on the wrenching events that induced him to devote sixteen years of his life to writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.
Country USA
Brand Other Press
Manufacturer Other Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 25767674
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2016-11-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590518090

Country	USA
Brand	Other Press
Manufacturer	Other Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	25767674
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2016-11-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590518090

Where Memory Leads: My Life

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