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Nightmare's
Fairy Tale "Korman movingly recounts his childhood years as a refugee in war-ravaged Europe. . . . The young adult who emerged was a collage of disjointed personas: an American Jew eager to embrace his new home, an immigrant who never shed the traces of his foreign accent, and a historian eager to tell the story that defines him, his family, and his people."—Publishers Weekly Gerd Korman's memoir plumbs the depths of twentieth-century history—from his family's deportation from Hamburg during the Nazi era, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family's reunited life in New York City. "This account is more than a thoughtful memoir by one of the relatively few child survivors of the Holocaust. The book stands out from a growing body of survivor narratives because Korman . . . interweaves a compelling story with astute observations on memory and collective identity. . . . An accessible, thoughtful work that defies pigeonholing as either personal narrative or professional history."—H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online "The moving tale of a family's tribulations
through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old. . . . [Korman]
also sees the connections made by understanding the Holocaust
as a historical phenomenon, writing of the Jewish cinders, now
commingled with the black salt of the Atlantic Ocean, and the
red dust of the American prairie."—Laurence Edwards,
Central Conference of American Rabbis Newsletter "This work is a gem. In this highly original and sensitively written book, Korman's honesty is a palpable presence throughout."—Alan L. Berger, series editor and Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University
Gerd Korman has a web page about his book, visit www.gerdkorman.com Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) There is a press kit for the cloth edition of this book.
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Gerd
Korman is professor emeritus of
American history at Cornell University's School of Industrial
and Labor Relations. His books include the prize-winning Industrialization,
Immigrants, and Americanizers and several works that established
him as an early student of the Holocaust, including the anthology
Hunter and Hunted. (Photo
credit: John McClymer)
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