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Nightmare's
Fairy Tale
A Young Refugee's Home
Fronts, 1938—1948
Gerd Korman
Shoah Studies, Alan L. Berger,
Series Editor
Publication date: November 2005
LC: 2005011891 DS
136 pp. 6 x 9
30 b/w photos
ISBN 0-299-21080-4 Cloth $19.95
Blurbs
"This work is a gem. In this highly
original and sensitively written book, Korman's honesty is a
palpable presence throughout."—Alan L. Berger, series
editor and Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies
at Florida Atlantic University
Reviews
Fifty-three years after being chased out of Nazi Germany, Korman
returned to the land he'd called home for the first 10 years
of his life. He and his younger brother visited the places throughout
Europe that had marked their itinerant youth: their first home
in Hamburg, a Polish refugee camp and then Talaton, the English
town where they found refuge as part of the Kindertransport.
Korman movingly recounts his childhood years as a refugee in
war-ravaged Europe and then as an immigrant in the United States.
With a scholar's gift for historical analysis, Korman (a professor
of American history at Cornell) uses his experiences to explore
the self-contained world of American-Jewish immigrants and the
scattered experience of growing up in several countries and on
two continents. While Korman's tale is more fortunate than those
of many Holocaust survivors—he was eventually reunited with
both his parents—his identity was irrevocably shaped by
the trauma of his teenage years. The young adult who emerged
was a collage of disjointed personas: an American Jew eager to
embrace his new home, an immigrant who never shed the traces
of his foreign accent and a historian eager to tell the story
that defined him, his family and his people. –Publishers
Weekly, Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division
of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
"This work is a gem. In this highly
original and sensitively written book, Korman's honesty is a
palpable presence throughout."–Alan L. Berger, series
editor and Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies
at Florida Atlantic University
Excerpts
Author's
bio
Gerd Korman is a professor emeritus
of American history at Cornell University's School of Industrial
and Labor Relations. His books include the prize-winning Industrialization,
Immigrants, and Americanizers and several works that established
him as an early student of the Holocaust, including the anthology
Hunter and Hunted.
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