Mikhal Dekel
Autore di Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Sull'Autore
Mikhal Dekel is a professor of English at City College of New York and the Cuny Graduate Center. She is the author of The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity, and the Zionist Moment and Oedipus in Kishinev.
Opere di Mikhal Dekel
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Israel
- Luogo di nascita
- Haifa, Israel
- Luogo di residenza
- Manhattan, NY USA
- Attività lavorative
- Professor of English at City College of New York and the Cuny Graduate Center
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 48
- Popolarità
- #325,720
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 7
Numerous children of Nazi victims have written memoirs. But most of them do not focus on historical detail . . . A line divided historians from psychologists and memoirists, an underlying assumption that intense historical focus in a memoir makes it less personal . . . I too had begun in this way, treating historical research as an exigency and a means to an end--I would conduct just enough to allow me to write my father's memoir responsibly. But increasingly, the knowledge of historical detail was making me listen more shrewdly but also more empathetically. The more I knew, the more I read, interrogated, and compared accounts and testimonies, the broader, deeper, and more precise my understanding became . . .… (altro)