Heavyweight A Family Story Of The Holocaust Empire And Memory TP - Midtown Comics
Heavyweight A Family Story Of The Holocaust Empire And Memory TP
Heavyweight A Family Story Of The Holocaust Empire And Memory TP

Heavyweight A Family Story Of The Holocaust Empire And Memory TP

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Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up with the heroic details of their ancestors' exploits. Their great-grandmother related how her husband, a boxing champion, thrashed Joseph Goebbels and cleared beer halls of Nazis with his fists, how she broke him out of an internment camp and carried their children over the Pyrenees mountains. But that story was never the whole picture; zooming out, everything becomes more complicated. Heavyweight asks us to consider how the patterns of history emerge and reverberate, not as a simple chain of events but in haunting layers. Confronting the specters of violence as both historian and descendent, this book is an exploration of family mythology, intergenerational memory, and the mark the past makes on the present.

Item #: 2318596 Diamond code: APR241853 ISBN: 9780063205956

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