Black Seasons

Name: Black Seasons
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ISBN: 9780810119598

ISBN-10: 0810119595

ISBN-13: 9780810119598

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michal Glowinski, Marci Shore, Jan T. Gross

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A mosaic of memories from a childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto and a life in hiding on the other side of the wall When six-year-old Michal Glowinski first heard the adults around him speak of the ghetto, he understood only that the word was connected with moving-and conjured up a fantastical image of a many-storied carriage pulled through the streets by some umpteen horses. He was soon to learn that the ghetto was something else entirely. A half-century later, Glowinski, now an eminent Polish literary scholar, leads us haltingly into Nazi-occupied Poland. Scrupulously attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, Glowinski revisits the images and episodes of…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 8/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Marci Shoreis assistant professor of history at Yale University.



Fragments from the ghetto


The pastry


Emil


My grandfather's suicide


Beans and a violin


Getting out


Dlugi


The black hour


Candid evening talks


The villa on Odolanska Street


The house beneath the eagles


A quarter hour passed in a pastry shop


Jasio the redhead


The death of Sister Longina


On a Sunday morning


A louse on a beret, a chasuble, a pair of shoes


Misjudeja


It was I who killed Jesus


Books I didn't read in my youth