There is now more than half a century of writing about the Holocaust, of which life-writing forms a substantial part, from Primo Levi's If This is a Man originally published in 1947 (2000) to the memoirs of the children of survivors such as Anne Karpf's The War After (1996). There ...
What are the elements of a nonfiction biography? A nonfiction biography is an example of literary nonfiction. A nonfiction biography needs to include the following three elements: A subject (the person whose life is chronicled) A biographer (the author writing about another person's life) Th...
Lesson 4 Reading as a Writer. “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”― Stephen KingStephen. Introductory Questions. Write each on a separate line Name: Hometown: Major(s): Minor(s): Year in School: Anticipated Graduati...
Originally written for a pioneering research project that hoped to address the challenges facing Polish Jewish youth, their words now speak across the chasm of history, providing unique testimony on Jewish life in the final years before the Holocaust."--Jacket.\n"This never-before-published ...
An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary's Jewish community and the nation's deep complicity in the Holocaust Born in 1723 in a small German town, Johann Klarfeld is thirteen when his father dies. He is taken in by a kind Italian painter to live with him and his daughter in...
An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary's Jewish community and the nation's deep complicity in the Holocaust "G谩bor Schein is that rarest of elegists, endowed equally with a respect for history and an ecstasy of imagination."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The...
"That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That be was a homosexual, and also a leader in the resistance, and survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and humor and without vitriol, and has now ...