Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g
A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams
Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g
ISBN: 978-963-9776-59-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
This is a memoir about the power of American assimilation and opportunity in the face of persisting refugee realities. Like Isaac Bashevis Singer, Monroe Price recounts the continuing impact of European identities as families, cast from their homes by the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich, struggle to find their way in a new and challenging environment.
In a series of reflections, Price, who was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1938 and left when he was seven months old, seeks to create the Vienna of his infancy, including Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht (during which his father was arrested). He shifts to scenes of American socialization in the places he moved with his parents: Macon, Georgia, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the experience of New York City. Through these reflections, Price illuminates ideas about family, religion, friends and schooling as well as deeply personal issues such as home, food and intimacy.
Price’s memoir weaves complicated strands—his Viennese origins, campaigns to distribute Jewish refugees away from New York City, the special qualities of Midwestern Ohio life in the 1950s—and the contrasting patterns of adjustment by different generations in his family in the American landscape. As he traces the particular path of his own life, Price reveals a more universal story of adjustment, and the relationship between a marginal community and the drama of American citizenship.
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1.REFUGEE, OR HOW AUSTRIAN AM I?
CARING AND COMMITMENT
CONFIDENCE MAN, FAITH HEALER
2.LEAVING VIENNA, 1938–1939
ANSCHLUSS AND AFTER
KRISTALLNACHT
EXIT
3.MACON, GEORGIA
RESETTLEMENT
MACON
4.NEW YORK CITY
VESTIGES
IRENE
COUSIN
ENGELSMANS IN AMERICA
5.CINCINNATI, OHIO
THE SOUTH WARWICK AND ROSELAWN
SYNAGOGUES
SCHOOL
6.WORK
INSECURITY
RECYCLING
TRYING OUT
ASSIMILATION AND NATIVE AMERICANS
ASPIRING
WITTGENSTEIN AND ME
7.FOOD, CLOTHES, STORIES, SEX
FOOD
CLOTHES AND CARS
ADOLESCENCE
8.OBJECTS OF REMEMBRANCE
VITRINE
OBERRABBINER
COLLECTING
9.SETTLEMENT
CITIZENSHIP AND PASSPORT
REPARATIONS, OBLIGATIONS, AMENDS
NATIONAL FUND
GENERAL SETTLEMENT FUND
DIE STADT OHNE JUDEN
TABORSTRASSE MAY, 2002
INVENTING TRADITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND POSTSCRIPT
