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A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time. Second Edition

by Judith Pearl Summerfield

  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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For those who value family history and memoir.

Explains how personal stories act as trauma cures.

Helps you find meaning in your own family history.

A deeply moving exploration of memory, heritage, and the resilience of a Jewish family escaping a lost world.

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A Man Comes from Someplace is a story of a lost world, a story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. As cultural study, the narrative draws upon the oral stories of the author's father, family letters, eyewitness accounts, immigration papers, etc., and cultural research. The narrative becomes a transformative space to re-present story as performance, a meta-narrative, and an auto-ethnography for the author to reflect upon the effects of the stories on her own life, as daughter of a survivor, and as teacher/scholar. Summerfield raises questions about immigration, survival, resilience, place and identity, how story functions as antidote to trauma, a means of making sense of the world, and as resistance, the refusal to be silenced or erased, the insistence we know the past and remember those who came before. In 2011, she found her way back to the place her family came from in Ukraine. The book is now being read by students in their ESL classes in Novokoonstantinov, Ukraine.

  • Title

    A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time. Second Edition

  • Author

    Judith Pearl Summerfield

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    March 2018

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004370951

  • ISBN-10

    9004370951

  • Eden Code

    5609690