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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Edith Schumer; Fern Schumer Chapman; Fern Schumer Chapman; Edith Schumer; Edith Schumer; Fern Schumer Chapman |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Fern Schumer Chapman |
ISBN: | 0140286233 9780140286236 |
OCLC Number: | 46764526 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Viking, 1999. |
Awards: | Short-listed for National Jewish Book Award (Autobiography) 2000 |
Description: | xi, 190 pages ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | Fern Schumer Chapman. |
Abstract:
A memoir of a mother-daughter relationship follows Edith--who as a girl was sent by her German-Jewish parents to live with relatives in Chicago--as she returns to the country of her birth after the war.
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"With precise and often moving prose, [Chapman] discovers truths about her mother's past." --Chicago Tribune"Measured and mesmerizing, Chapman's account...constitutes a new and profound perspective on the legacy of the Holocaust." --Booklist Read more...
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