Where memory leads
Subtitle: my life
By: Saul Friedländer
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781590518090
Subjects: Jewish historians; Jewish learning and scholarship; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Influence; Biography; Research
Description: "Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with [Where memory leads] 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. Friedländer'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. Friedländer 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. Most importantly, this memoir led Friedländer 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"--
Table of contents: title: Nirah; title: Paris; title: Sweden; title: New horizons; title: Geneva; title: Turmoil; title: The footsteps of the Messiah; title: Hubris; title: Expiation; title: The mount of the blessing; title: The inability to mourn; title: Berlin; title: A sense of exile?; title: Dilemmas; title: The time that remains.