Where memory leads : my life

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Label

Where memory leads : my life

Title remainder

my life

Statement of responsibility

by Saul Friedländer

Creator

• Friedländer, Saul, 1932-
• trueFriedlander, Saul, 1932-

Author

• Friedländer, Saul, 1932-

Subject

• Autobiographies
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
• Biography
• Friedländer, Saul, 1932-
• Friedländer, Saul, 1932-
• HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel
• trueHistorians
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Research
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• trueJewish historians
• Jewish historians
• Jewish historians -- Biography
• Jewish learning and scholarship
• Jewish learning and scholarship
• Research
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence
• 1939-1945
• Autobiographies

Genre

• trueBiography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with WHERE MEMORY LEADS: MY LIFE, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. After abandoning his youthful conversion to Catholicism, he rediscovers his Jewish roots as a teenager and builds a new life in Israeli politics. Friedländer's initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. He struggles to process the ubiquitous effects of European anti-Semitism while searching for a more measured approach to the Zionism that surrounds him. Friedländer goes on to spend his adulthood shuttling between Israel, Europe, and the United States, armed with his talent for language and an expansive intellect. His prestige inevitably throws him up against other intellectual heavyweights. In his early years in Israel, he rubs shoulders with the architects of the fledgling state and brilliant minds such as Gershom Scholem and Carlo Ginzburg, among others. Most importantly, this memoir led Friedländerto reflect on the wrenching events that induced him to devote sixteen years of his life to writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945"--

Tone

• trueHaunting

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 940.53/18092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

DS135.F9

LC item number

F75 2016

Literary form

non fiction