Lives Lived and Lost: East European History Before, During and After World War II as Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother (Holocaust: … and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy)

Lives Lived and Lost: East European History Before, During and After World War II as Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother (Holocaust: … and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy)
by: Kaja Finkler(Author),Golda Finkler(Author)
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date: 15 May 2012
Language: English
Print Length: 350 pages
ISBN-10: 1936235900
ISBN-13: 9781936235902
Book Description
Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother’s and daughter’s separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformative period in Eastern Europe and opens a window to the crucial events of that epoch. The challenge of the narratives provides the urgency of the story and the richness of the historical record. It is also an unforgettable story of love, loss, and longing for family engulfed by war. The book will resonate with those interested in the lives of individual women and children; scholars, and students of history, gender, and religion, especially Hasidism, and with mainstream readers in this and future generations unfamiliar with life during the first half of the twentieth century in Europe.