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A Spoonful of Soup
by Gary Gray
PB
Short stories
Australian Jewish writer
In April 1942, Gary Gray (Gustav Josef Grajcar) at age thirteen was incarcerated for three years in a number of slave-labour and concentration camps.
In 1986, Gary Gray began recording his war experiences as a legacy for his three daughters, in the form of short stories.
These have consequently gained wide acclaim, having been published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers.
Now one book brings together all his stories, allowing the reader to make that terrible and unforgettable journey with the author. An inspiring collection.
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Alva's Boy
Alan Collins
Release date: November 2008
Hybrid Publishers
“I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of a mother. But then, what did I know about mothers anyway? … The short answer was nothing – bugger-all.”
Sydney in 1928 and Alva, a young Jewish wife, dies in childbirth. No family member is allowed to care for the baby, so “Alva’s boy” is sent from one children’s home to another. His father weds for the fourth time but young Alan finds his dreams of a real home shattered amid the ruins of this disastrous marriage. He navigates his way through childhood as a street-smart survivor, and not even the archetypal wicked stepmother, her terrible Ma or his own foolish father can rob him of hope.
With a keen ear for authentic dialogue and a wry humour, Alan Collins tells a poignant story with vitality and a remarkable lack of sentimentality. The adult author reconstructs his childhood through the memory of vivid sensory experiences and presents a cast of unforgettable characters. He has an unerring sense of time and place, and through his eyes we glimpse Australia, and in particular Jewish-Australian society, as it was in the 1930s and early 1940s.
He shows us a community caught up in the Great Depression, anticipating and then experiencing war, coping with poverty, ill-prepared for the ‘reffos’ who were coming from Europe. It is a memoir that is so Jewish and at the same time so Australian.
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Child of War
Author: Nachman Seltzer & Arye Leibish Friedman
Format: Hardcover | 268 Pages
SKU: COWH
When little Leibish was eight years old, his world came to an end.
It had been a wonderful world, the secure and peaceful world of Chassidic Budapest. And now, in an instant, it was gone. The Nazis had arrived, and Leibish and his family were brutally thrust into a world where life hung in the balance each day, where almost no one could be trusted, where British bombers rained down destruction while Gestapo officers lurked in shadows, watching for hidden Jews.
With all the many Holocaust histories and memoirs written in the past years, surprisingly few focus on what it was like to be a child during those dark years - for the painful reason that so few children remained to tell the story. Arye Leibish Friedman, scion of a fine Bobover family, was one of those few lucky ones. And he has a remarkable story to tell.
Reb Leibish Friedman turned to Nachman Seltzer, the author whose gift for bringing extraordinary true stories to life has won him wide acclaim, to tell the tale of little Leibish and his family. And what a story it is. We follow Leibish as, with the wide-eyed wonder of childhood, he watches the rescue operation in his living room. We see how Leibish's violin saves his cousin from the Gestapo, how Leibish's aunt bluffs her way into Gestapo headquarters to save Leibish's baby sister. We marvel at Leibish himself, the eight-year-old who transforms himself from a little Chassidic boy with long payos to Istvan, a gentile lad whose father is fighting for the Nazi cause.
A Child of War is a testament to one young boy's courage and determination to survive, a haunting and dramatic tale of faith, miracles, and love.
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Come Spring
by Maria Lewitt
Scribe Publications
PB
Australian Jewish writer
An autobiographical novel, originally published in 1980 to rave reviews, Come Spring is now re-issued so that a new generation of readers has access to one of the earliest and finest examples of Australian Holocaust literature. Maria Lewitt is a Melbourne writer and is the author of No Snow in December. Come Spring is told through the unforgettable eyes of her adolescent self and is the story of her family's experience living in Warsaw as civilians with a terrible secret.
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Cooking from Memory
by Gaye Weeden, Natalie King, Hayley Smorgon
Format: Paperback: 192 pages
Published Oct 2008
"This is a book to treasure." —Claudia Roden, bestselling author, The Book of Jewish Food
Part cookbook, part history lesson, this book illustrates the story of the Jewish Diaspora in Australia through personal stories and delicious recipes that rouse taste buds and memories of the past.
Readers meet 21 cooks who have migrated to Australia from places like Georgia, Italy, and Israel, as well as from Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam.
While their stories of courage and hardship differ, food and flavors filled their Jewish homes with love, no matter where they lived. Readers can feast their eyes on beautiful photography while learning recipes for Sephardi couscous, chicken soup, gefilte fish, and strudel—as well as indulging in rich Jewish culture and tradition.
Hayley Smorgon is a former dessert chef with a background in the visual arts. Gaye Weeden is a food and interiors editor and stylist who has worked for Gourmet Traveller, Marie Claire, and Vogue. Natalie King is a writer, a curator, and a broadcaster who has written for several magazines, including Art and Australia, Australian Art Collector, Elle, and Qantas magazine.
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Eating the Underworld
by Doris Brett
published by Vintage
pb
Australian Jewish writer
When Doris Brett was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, she began writing a private journal
- a traveller's diary through a life threatening illness.
The journal, however, rapidly grew into something much more than that. Evocatively told via three voices - the diarist, the poet, and the voice of fairytale and myth - this memoir explores the intricate dynamics of family, truth and memory.
Doris Brett is a writer and clinical psychologist who lives in Melbourne.
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Eshkolot:Essays in Memory of Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky
Hybrid Publishers
Australian Jewish writers
Rabbi, historian and educator, Ronald Lubofsky AM was born and educated in London.
He was Chief Minister of the St Kilda Synagogue, Melbourne for twenty-five years before taking an early retirement to pursue his multitude of interests.
He was the founder, mentor and Life President of the Jewish Museum of Australia, a founder and President of the Council of Christians and Jews, the founder and President of the Melbourne Jewish Male Voice Choir and a founder of the Victorian Bookbinders Association.
He was associated with Mt Scopus Memorial College for many years, both as a teacher, board member and President of the Board of Governors.
He was a gifted teacher and speaker, possessed of a magnificent bass baritone voice, and was a devotee of all types of music.
As a passionate Jew with a humane and compassionate outlook on life, he had a warm and wonderful sense of humour and was never without a twinkle in his eyes.
A book collector since childhood, his vast library was his greatest pleasure and a valuable community resource.
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Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
PB
The first novel by Jonathan Safran Foer is a quixotic search across a devastated landscape in the Ukraine and back into an unexpected past. If you enjoy total irreverence and a brimming imagination that turns tragedy into comedy, this novel is for you. AND it is John Safran who appears on SBS.
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From Berlin to Biere: Growing up in the Holocaust
by Joseph Spring
Memoir
176 pages
In his moving account of how a young boy managed to survive the horrors of the Holocaust, Joseph Spring takes us through the deterioration of conditions under which Jews lived in Germany, his turbulent life as he fled to Belgium, hid in France on false papers, tried to cross the border into Spain and was then betrayed crossing the Swiss border and handed over to the Germans.
He describes life in Buna, a side camp of Auschwitz which supplied slave labour for the chemical combine IG Farben. With his life constantly threatened by hunger, disease or a bullet in Auschwitz, Joseph trained to be a welder and lived from one day to the next until on his eighteenth birthday he was forced to go on a death march.
The book also gives an account of the only court case to have taken place in the Swiss Bundes Gericht in Lausanne (High Court) re Swiss Government's attitude to Jewish refugees, where Joseph accused the Swiss government of participation in genocide.
Using precise details and a clear direct voice, Joseph conveys his experiences vividly and records for posterity the clear facts of this shameful time in Europe’s history.
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Hear Me Talking To Ya
By Bob Sedergreen
Many books have bee written about Australian Jazz from the outside looking in, but this book is written from the inside and is a revealing and rewarding experience from the heart and soul of an important figure in the history of Australian Jazz.
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How I Came Into My Inheritance
by Dorothy Gallagher
PB
Dorothy Gallagher's parents, Jewish Communists from the Ukraine, emigrated to New York in the early 1920s. An only child, Dorothy was raised to 'the Struggle' and to a blind devotion to Marx and Stalin. This book is the story of her unusual childhood.
A delicate and beautifully written book, it unites a humorous and warm portrayal of family life with an understanding of the events and movements that have shaped the peoples of Europe and America over the course of the 20th century. Highly recommended in paperback
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Impossible Love
by Roman Frister
HB
Some years ago Roman Frister came across an old suitcase in a Tel Aviv flea market. It contained documents and photos belonging to several generations of the Levy family - Jews living in Prussia from around the middle of the 19th century up until the beginning of the Second World War. He managed to trace some of the descendants and with their help has written their history - a detailed and involving narrative set against the turbulent backdrop of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. Roman Frister recreates the same compelling, intellectually engaging style that he used in The Cap: The Price of a Life in this meticulously structured book which reads like an epic novel.
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In Sunshine Or In Shadow
by Martin Flanagan
Australian publication
Martin Flanagan is the author of seven books, the most recent The Call in 1993. He is well known as a features writer for The Age newspaper.
In Sunshine Or In Shadow, Martin Flanagan uses his evocative journalist writing style in his deeply personal memoir of growing up in Tasmania and in his reflections of the meanings of home, place, birthright and history.
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Journal 1935-1944
by Mihail Sebastian
PB
Michail Sebastian was a promising young Jewish writer in pre-war Bucharest, a novelist, playwright, poet and journalist who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture. One of the most remarkable literary achievements of the Nazi period, Sebastian's journal offers not only a compelling chronicle of the darkest years of European anti-Semitism, but a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a reader's notebook, and a music lover's journal which vividly captures the now-vanished world of pre-war Bucharest.
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KEDEM Conversations with Self
by Rimona Kedem
Australian Jewish writer
Rimona Kedem is an artist born in Israel and has taught and exhibited in galleries in Mexico, Israel and in Australia, where she has lived for the last thirty years.
Her work is featured in many private collections here and overseas as well as institutions such as the National Gallery in Melbourne and La Trobe University.
Her major commission has been the design of over 60 lead glass windows in the New Melbourne Synagogue in Toorak Road.
KEDEM conversations with self is a testament to her artistic talents. Rimona is currently artist in residence at Bialik College.
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LIVING HISTORY
Hillary Rodham Clinton finally reveals what life was like as First Lady during some of the most scandalous years the White House has ever seen.
A successful politician in her own right, elected as Senator for New York in 2000, she discusses honestly and directly the events that marked her husband’s presidency as well as his impeachment after years of scandal.
Besides setting the record straight on many subjects on which she has previously been unable to speak out, her memoir covers the issues close to her heart: the welfare of children, the status of women internationally and social justice.
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MAN OF HONOUR
DUFFY, MICHAEL
This exciting new biography argues that John Macarthur was a founding father not just of New South Wales but of Australia. After choosing to come to Sydney as a soldier in 1790, Macarthur set about making his fortune Ð an often ruthless exercise that throws into sharp relief the morality, dynamics and politics of early colonial society. Yet Michael Duffy argues that MacarthurÕs manipulation of the system and of individuals, his delight in feuds and his ferocity (he fought three duels) should not mask the fact that he lived by the code of honour, an unspoken set of rules that, at the end of the eighteenth century, determined how powerful men dealt with each other.
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MARCHING POWDER
YOUNG, RUSTY
Marching Powder is a shocking, sometimes darkly comic
account of the life in San Pedro. In this bizarre prison, inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Others run shops and restaurants, and hundreds of women and children live with imprisoned family members. It is a place where corrupt politicians and drug lords live in luxury apartments while the poorest prisoners are subjected to squalor and deprivation. Violence and crime are never far away, and sections of San Pedro that echo with the sound of children by day house some of Bolivia's busiest cocaine laboratories by night. In San Pedro, cocaine makes life bearable - even the prison cat is addicted to crack.
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Memory Maps
Lisa St Aubin de Teran
"I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder's love of houses and things... I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places." In Memory Map, probably her most personal book, Lisa St Aubin de Teran charts a life spent in all corners of the world, from Wimbledon to the Venezuelan Andes, from the Caribbean to Ghana, and confesses to wanderlust and fate as being her chief guides. An itinerant lifestyle creates an unpredictable personal life, though, and Lisa writes movingly about being the support for three children by three different husbands and also, of the pain of failing to be strong.
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Miracle of St. Anna
by James McBride
PB
James McBride's powerful memoir The Colour of Water was a publishing phenomenon both in America and in Australia. In his long awaited second book, McBride turns his highly acclaimed talent as a storyteller to fiction. Inspired by a historical incident that took place in the village of St. Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany and by the experiences of the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd division in Italy during World War II, Miracle of St. Anna is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, heroism, and love. It is the story of four American soldiers, the villagers among whom they take refuge, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy. Traversing class, race, and geography, Miracle of St. Anna is above all a hymn to the brotherhood of man and the power to do good that lives in each of us.
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MONASH The Outsider Who Won A War
by Roland Perry
published by Random House Australia
John Monash was the finest commander of World War One.
Yet at times he had more trouble with those on his side than he did in fighting the Turks at Gallipoli and defeating the Germans in a series of battles that decided the war.
In reaching the top of the Australian army, he had to overcome what he called his 'handicaps of birth' - being a Colonial part-time soldier with German Jewish parents.
MONASH The Outsider Who Won A War reveals for the first time his relationships with those who would try to bring him down, including Australia's Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, the country's most influential journalists, Keith Murdoch and Charles Bean and other powerful figures.
Author Roland Perry also draws on the subject's comprehensive letter and diary archive, to chronicle his relationships with the women in his life.
Remembered as the namesake of Australia’s largest university and the face of Australia’s $100 note, MONASH The Outsider Who Won A War is a riveting portrait that reaches to the heart of the true Monash character as a Renaissance man, engineer, lawyer, soldier, businessman and lover of the Arts.
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My Dear Friends
by John S Levi
256 pages (hardback)
The year 2009 marked the centenary of the birth of Rabbi Herman Max Sanger.
The rabbi’s early life was shaped during the tumultuous years of the German Weimar Republic. A gifted linguist, the Berlin Jewish community appointed him their emissary when the Nazis came to power and he left Berlin just one step ahead of the Gestapo.
The young rabbi arrived in Australia in 1936 and immediately began to build the Australian progressive movement both in Melbourne and Sydney. A brilliant orator and teacher, Sanger saw Temple Beth Israel grow from a small group of discouraged Melbourne Jews into the ‘mother synagogue’ of congregations around Australia and New Zealand. It was often a lonely battle. Rabbi Sanger contended with years of bitter opposition and prejudice.
This fascinating and important biography has been written by his rabbinic successor, Emeritus Rabbi Dr John Levi AM. It has been published by the Australian Jewish Historical Society and sponsored by the Progressive Jewish Cultural Fund.
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My Father, My Father
by Bernard Marin
Scribe Publications
PB
Australian Jewish writer
Bernard Marin lives in Melbourne where he grew up as a typical Australian boy devoted to cricket and football. When he was almost fifty, he was struck down by crippling headaches.
Slowly and reluctantly, he came to understand that his physical distress was the voice of the past demanding a listening.
It was the voice of his detached father reaching out to him, fourteen years after his death. Bernard Marin begins a journey to understand who his father was and to discover his ancestors.
My Father, My Father is a sincere account of a story of anguish and loss, discovery and redemption.
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My Father's Compass
Howard Goldenberg
(revised edition with Epilogue)
My Father’s Compass is a poignant, moving, and at times hilarious memoir celebrating the long life of Howard’s father Myer Goldenberg.
Myer is remembered in Leeton for his medical services as well as his other roles as olive industry pioneer, sailor and religious Jew. He lived with his family in Leeton from 1941 to 1955 and was a beloved family doctor.
The author’s return to Leeton is not merely for a book launch, but a return to the people and places that were important to the Goldenberg family as outlined in the pages of the book.
Through the pages of this beautifully written debut, Goldenberg records and honours the deep faith, strength and vitality of his father. He gives the reader a glimpse into an almost idyllic childhood in Leeton from which he is abruptly removed and never quite recovers.
From the naughty escapades of little boys to a tragic drowning, from the joys of sailing to the heartache of helping aging parents, Goldenberg takes the reader on a journey through his childhood in Leeton to Melbourne, Victoria and later into the further reaches of the outback.
Goldenberg Senior moves from being a small town’s doctor, deliverer of babies and head of the sole Jewish family, to a city with a large Jewish population where he performs thousands of ritual circumcisions.
Author Helen Garner describes My Father’s Compass as, “Honest, funny, painful, shining with respect and love: a man’s tribute to the severe beauty of his father’s character.”
Through his magical story-telling, the reader is taken back to the child inside the grown-up Goldenberg who sees the world as an exciting, frustrating and often scary place.
Writer Martin Flanagan says, “Howard Goldenberg writes with verve and humour. He also writes with deep compassion. It is this unusual marriage of qualities which makes him a rare and valuable witness to our times.”
Paul Jennings writes, “Howard Goldenberg is a fine wordsmith and a wonderful storyteller. He explores his father’s life with great compassion and honesty. His compass has served him well both as a doctor and a writer.”
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My Mother's Child
by Helen Gardner
Makor
Helen Gardner was born in Melbourne in 1939 to Polish Jewish immigrant parents. At 2 ½ she was sent to live in Traralgon in rural Victoria with a fundamentalist Christian woman who she called Nursie, while her parents remained in Melbourne. She describes a blissfully unassuming life growing up under Nursie’s watchful eye in a small, Christian community. Her parents’ occasional visits to Traralgon, and the yearly fortnight spent in Melbourne with her parents while Nursie took annual leave, made no impact on her sense of Traralgon as home and community. But her father died when she was eight, and at nine, her mother brought her back to Melbourne and sent her to boarding school as a weekly boarder, coming home to her mother for the weekends.
Torn from the place she thought of as home, the people she loved and thought of as family, and the religion she had been raised to believe in, Helen was shocked and bewildered. Her pleas to go “home” were met with indignation. This was home. She was her mother’s child, and this was where she belonged. And she was Jewish. There was not going to be any Christian “nonsense” in her mother’s house. But Helen did not know how to be Jewish, and her mother, to whom it all came naturally, did not know how to tell her. How do you change your religion when it’s not by choice?
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Not Paradise
by Anna Rosner Blay
Hybrid Publishers
How do you live through traumatic experiences and survive them?
What sort of courage does it take to confront a past of loss and suffering, and still find the strength and resilience to make a new start?
Through the parallel stories of new beginnings by four women survivors of the Holocaust living in Australia, and that of the author's search to create a new life after the breakdown of her marriage, the process of transition is evocatively told by Anna Rosner Blay.
Despite individual struggles and grief, across the generations each woman has found a way of continuing to live a life of hope and fulfilment.
Highly recommended.
Anna Rosner Blay's previous book was the critically acclaimed 'Sister, Sister'.
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Pushing Time Away
by Peter Singer
HarperCollins
Intensely personal, but hauntingly universal, Pushing Time Away tells, through the prism of one man's letters and assorted papers, the story of Vienna's descent into fascism and the terrible impact this had on the author s family.
What emerges is an unforgettable story of courage, love, tragedy and humanity.
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Revenge: A Story of Hope
by Laura Blumenfeld
Large PB
An intensely personal memoir. Blumenfeld is a Washington Post reporter who, armed with a notebook and pencil, seeks the Palestinian man who shot her father in Jerusalem 12 years earlier.
Through interviews with Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, members of the Albanian Blood Feud Commitee, the chief of the Iranian judiciary, the mayor of Palermo, an Egyptian heroin smuggler, the Israeli Prime Minister and the military chief of staff, priests, sports fans, teenage girls and prostitutes, she explores the mechanics and psychology of vengeance.
Ultimately her journey leads her home, where she confronts her childhood, her parents' failed marriage, and her ideas about family. And in the end, her target turns out to be more complex and in some ways, more threatening than the adversary she had long imagined.
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Ride to Win
by Greg Hall
Melbourne Books
Paperback 240 pages
Includes 16 pages of colour photos
Released in April 2003
Greg Hall survived the ‘school of hard knocks’ to become one of Australia’s most successful jockeys.
Greg Hall did not see his mother for 12 years after his father, the great jumps jockey Ron Hall, stole him in the dead of night when he was only two.
He sold papers in front of the landmark Young & Jackson’s Hotel in Melbourne at 11 to feed himself, and roam the unsavoury area of Fitzroy Street, St Kilda at 12.
Hall then spent 7 years as an apprentice, being shunted between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
He rode his first Group 1 winner for his father in 1978 at age 21 but returned to Melbourne to seek advice from the great Roy Higgins to put polish on his style.
Years later Higgins rated Hall in the top 10 jockeys he had ridden against.
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Riding the Bus With My Sister
by Rachel Simon
PB
When Rachel Simon's sister Beth asks her to ride the buses with her for a year, Rachel is at first reluctant. Not only is she hyperbusy, but her relationship with her sister has never been easy. Beth has mental retardation and, although she is able to look after herself, she can be a handful. As she participates in Beth's world, Rachel realises the shortcomings in her own life and learns the difference between caring and controlling as she reaches a new, sisterly understanding with Beth.
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Search for Roots
by Primo Levi
PB
A collection of personal reflections on writings that Primo Levi considered essential reading. All reflect Levi's deep passion for literature, his profound knowledge of science, and his survival of Auschwitz, making it a collection that is both universal and poignantly autobiographical.
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Secrets and Spies
by Mara Moustafine
Random House
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Australian Jewish writer
Harbin in northern China was once the heart of a vibrant Russian community of diverse cultural and political origins. But by the mid-1930s, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria drove many Russians to seek refuge elswehere. For the thousands who returned to their motherland in the Soviet Union, it was a bitter homecoming. Few survived. Written with sensitivity and humour, Mara Moustafine skilfully weaves personal and political, past and present to give an insider's perspective on the life of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
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Sister Sister
by Anna Rosner Blay
‘Sister Sister’ was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award and the The New South Wales Premiers Award.
From the busy marketplaces of pre-war Kraków, Poland, to the horror of the Holocaust and the haven of Schindler’s factory, to the apparent peace and safety of a suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia, this is the story of two sisters who miraculously survived.
Their extraordinary life stories are interwoven with the childhood and later memories of the narrator, Anna, daughter and niece of the two sisters, Hela and Janka.
Through the recollections and dreams of these three voices we learn of worlds and people forever lost, of shattered hopes, of the fragility of survival, and of the power of the human spirit.
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