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An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family historyâa story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.
In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them across continents and decades, mapping individual lives that diverge and intertwine, vital patterns of struggle and resilience, valued heritage and evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national), converge into a resonant portrait of cultural identity in the modern age.
Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through to the present day, Cohen tracks his familyâs story of repeated upheaval, from Lithuania to South Africa, and then to England, the United States, and Israel. It is a tale of otherness marked by overt and latent anti-Semitism, but also otherness as a sense of inheritance. We see Cohenâs family members grow roots in each adopted homeland even as they struggle to overcome the loss of what is left behind and to adaptâto the racism his parents witness in apartheid-era South Africa, to the familiar ostracism an uncle from Johannesburg faces after fighting against Hitler across Europe, to the ambivalence an Israeli cousin experiences when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank.
At the heart of The Girl from Human Street is the powerful and touching relationship between Cohen and his mother, that âgirl.â Tortured by the upheavals in her life yet stoic in her struggle, she embodies her sonâs complex inheritance.
Graceful, honest, and sweeping, Cohenâs remarkable chronicle of the quest for belonging across generations contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.
About: An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family historyâa story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.
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