Go Laughing (Paperback)

Roselle Tekiner

ISBN 10: 1537414364 / ISBN 13: 9781537414362

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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Paperback. Go Laughing chronicles the inspiring life journey of an anthropologist, Roselle Tekiner. She came of age in a poor family in Chicago during the Great Depression, made her way through college despite major obstacles, entered a cross-cultural marriage, succumbed to the feminine mystique through the fifties and sixties, completed her Ph.D., and became an academic and an activist scholar. Her union in middle age with Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leader in the U.S. anti-Zionist movement, channeled her long-term interest in the Middle East toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and had a profound impact on her later scholarly work. Roselle Tekiner's life course illustrates the ways major historical events produce turning points and unexpected trajectories in human lives. This memoir does more than document a series of interesting and often surprising life events; it is a story of human agency, showing how ideas and perceptions, no matter how incorrect, can provide the impetus to achieve seemingly impossible life goals. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781537414362

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Title: Go Laughing (Paperback)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Paperback

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Synopsis:

Go Laughing chronicles the inspiring life journey of an anthropologist, Roselle Tekiner. She came of age in a poor family in Chicago during the Great Depression, made her way through college despite major obstacles, entered a cross-cultural marriage, succumbed to the feminine mystique through the fifties and sixties, completed her Ph.D., and became an academic and an activist scholar. Her union in middle age with Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leader in the U.S. anti-Zionist movement, channeled her long-term interest in the Middle East toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and had a profound impact on her later scholarly work. Roselle Tekiner’s life course illustrates the ways major historical events produce turning points and unexpected trajectories in human lives. This memoir does more than document a series of interesting and often surprising life events; it is a story of human agency, showing how ideas and perceptions, no matter how incorrect, can provide the impetus to achieve seemingly impossible life goals.

About the Author:

Roselle Tekiner (1921-) grew up in Chicago and lived her adult life in New York and Florida. She received academic degrees in Political Science (BA, University of Chicago, 1943) and Anthropology (MA, Columbia University, 1966; Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York), and taught at Hunter College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, New College of the University of South Florida, and Eckerd College. Her published work spans the fields of physical anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. Her writing in her later career focused on issues of religion and nationality surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.