Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (1992) 83-95
Keywords:
Segal, Lore Groszmann.
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Gershon, Karen.
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Jewish refugees
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish children in the Holocaust
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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American literature History and criticism
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English literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Discusses the works of former child-refugees of the Holocaust, Lore Segal and Karen Gershon. Segal's memoir "Other People's Houses" (1964) describes her childhood in Austria, and later Great Britain, after having been sent there on a "Kindertransport." Gershon, originally a German refugee to Britain, has written poetry, a collective autobiography ("We Came as Children, " 1966), and a fictionalized autobiography ("The Bread of Exile, " 1985) on the subject of child refugees. Analyzes issues such as the search for an atheistic Jewish identity and the formative role which the Holocaust played in that search, and the challenge of dealing with antisemitism.
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