Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes : : In and Out of a Postwar Jewish Childhood / / Annette Aronowicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Aronowicz, Annette,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)

Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author's growing up—from Poland to Belgium and from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States. The book also moves between past and present. The authors' parents, Jews from Eastern Europe, lived through the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the post-war Communist world, and much migration in between. How were these events transmitted to their child, and what questions do they give rise to today? The book moves between straightforward story-telling and reflections on memory, on politics and religion, and on literature. It seeks the genesis of intellectual interests in personal story.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Charles Péguy and Romain Gary–A Quasi-Academic Exploration of Memory -- 1 Myth of Origins -- 2 Communism -- 3 Jewish -- 4 Mental Illness -- 5 Money -- 6 Russian Friendships -- 7 Theological Fragments -- Postscript Talking to Myself about Literature -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index