Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite

The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an...
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Author: Julija Sukys
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Language: English
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Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite by Sukys, Julija

Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite

€42,45

Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite

€42,45
Author: Julija Sukys
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly no one recognizes her as the warrior and revolutionary she was, when again and again she slipped into the Jewish ghetto of German-occupied Vilnius to carry food, clothes, medicine, money, and counterfeit documents to its prisoners. Often she left with letters to deliver, manuscripts to hide, and even sedated children swathed in sacks. In 1944 she was captured by the Gestapo, tortured for twelve days, and deported to Dachau.
Through Epistolophilia, Julija Sukys follows the letters and journals--the "life-writing"--of this woman, Ona Simaite (1894-1970). A treasurer of words, Simaite carefully collected, preserved, and archived the written record of her life, including thousands of letters, scores of diaries, articles, and press clippings. Journeying through these words, Sukys negotiates with the ghost of Simaite, beckoning back to life this quiet and worldly heroine--a giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem's honored "Righteous Among the Nations") and yet so little known. The result is at once a mediated self-portrait and a measured perspective on a remarkable life. It reveals the meaning of life-writing, how women write their lives publicly and privately, and how their words attach them--and us--to life.

Author: Julija Sukys
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780803236325


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/29/2012
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2012

About the Author
Julija Sukys is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Department of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007).

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