We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to...
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We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Cassedy, Ellen

We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

$45.18

We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

$45.18
Author: Ellen Cassedy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusalem of the North." As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a nation--how do successor generations, moral beings--overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in "We Are Here," one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family's place in it. Digging through archives with the help of a local whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to "speak to a Jew" before he dies; discovering the complications encountered by a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation-Cassedy finds that it's not just the facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them. Ellen Cassedy has explored the world of the Lithuanian Holocaust for ten years. Her translations and articles have appeared in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Forward, and Hadassah.

Author: Ellen Cassedy
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.61w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780803230125


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New York Review of Books 08/16/2012 pg. 70

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Ellen Cassedy has explored the world of the Lithuanian Holocaust for ten years. Her translations and articles have appeared in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Forward, and Hadassah.

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