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Somewhere I Belong: A Story of Country, Family, Home, and Jewish Identity
A moving tale of betrayal, family, and belonging in the world1960, Durban, South Africa: A Jewish father...
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A moving tale of betrayal, family, and belonging in the world
1960, Durban, South Africa: A Jewish father tells Jo-Anne, his ten-year-old daughter, "There'll be a bloody revolution here: revenge, massacres, a blood bath. Don't think of this place as home. We'll have to leave and find home someplace else."
His words leave her feeling frightened, uprooted, and longing for a place to call home. She loves and trusts her father more than anyone in the world until the unimaginable happens: He betrays her.
Jo-Anne represses the betrayal and moves on with her life and career. Years later, she discovers a letter her father had written long ago, confronting her with an agonizing truth she had refused to face, and deepening her confusion about her identity. Seeking clarity, she reexamines her roots, a journey that leads her to explore her Jewish grandfathers who fled pogroms in Russia and Lithuania. How did their quests for home play out in her life? At last, she has an epiphany that leads her to find where she truly belongs.
Somewhere I Belong is a compelling memoir with universal themes of love, betrayal, self-discovery, and finding home.
Author: Jo-Anne Berelowitz
Publisher: Jo-Anne Berelowitz
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781966981046
About the Author
Berelowitz, Jo-Anne: - Jo-Anne Berelowitz earned her MA in Art History from Stanford University, her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, and her MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis on nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop. She was, for many years, senior art historian at San Diego State University. Her art history essays have appeared in Genders, Society and Space, The Oxford Art Journal, The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, The Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, and elsewhere. In 2018 she was awarded the Wabash Prize for Literary Nonfiction. She resides in Austin, TX.
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