When Memory Comes - Softcover

Friedlander, Saul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299190447 ISBN 13: 9780299190446

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Synopsis

Four months before Hitler came to power, Pavel Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Pavel and his family were forced to flee Czechoslovakia for France, but his parents were able to conceal their son in a Roman Catholic seminary before being shipped to their destruction. After a whole-hearted religious conversion, young Pavel began training for priesthood. The birth of Israel prompted his discovery of his Jewish past and his true identity. Friedländer describes his experiences, moving from Israeli present to European past with composure and elegance.

The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the British Commonwealth or Empire (excluding Canada.)

About this title

From the Publisher:

Wisconsin edition not for sale in the U.K. or the traditional British Commonwealth

From the Back Cover:

"Friedländer undertakes an evocative journey into his past that is likely to leave many a reader shaken."-Amos Elon, New York Times Book Review

"A beautifully written (and beautifully translated) memoir of a tragic childhood."- New Yorker

"A work of eloquence and compassion."-John Skow,Time

"A tender elegy which moves from the Israeli present to the European past, from fear to memory, in a mosaic of Proustian images."- New Republic

"The most remarkable feature of When Memory Comes is its composure, an elegance that is unnerving. Friedländer describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes."-Leon Wieseltier, The New York Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0299190447
• ISBN 13: 9780299190446
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186