Ergebnis für "Memory" in Abenteurer, Entdecker & Survival

The Memory House is a poetic memoir based on stories about the Israeli immigrant experience, ranging from the author's grandparents leaving Eastern Europe during the holocaust, to her parents immigrating from Israel to America in the sixties, and then to her own experiences growing up between Israel and the US in the eighties. The book is bilingual and weaves back and forth through time, crossing cultural lines and making connections with ancestral lineage.

This memoir combines the drastic losses which occur due to severe episodic memory deficits with the greater agency currently afforded to all of us as made capable via ingenuity and technology. In this book memory loss is considered within the present-day environment of novel solutions heretofore unimaginable. All of us may never need to worry about recalling key life events ever again.

‘Haunting.’ Jonathan Freedland ‘Powerful.’ Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha...