Home Is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices
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Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years as "enemy aliens." In 1971 they emigrated once more, this time voluntarily, to the United States. Home is Somewhere Else is a dual-voice, autobiographical...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:079141969X
ISBN13:9780791419694
Release Date:July 1994
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
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Home is Somewhere Else
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
A unique approach to the genre of "escapee" literature. Accounts of wartime experiences of the Furst family vascillate between now late father, Desider, and daughter, Lilian, and are centered around the cities which represent the changing fortunes of the family. This is a personal family drama that floats along the borders of history and draws the reader into a subdued and melancholic vision of the post-war Jewish family.
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