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Description "Tambourine" is dedicated to the good, brave people of Spain who provided refuge to Gypsies and Jews fleeing the Vichy French. This is a story of courage and hope in the face of unrelenting danger. It is a story of ingenuity and strength, and the human capacity for survival. Anna and her Gypsy family are in constant risk of their lives as they attempt to reach Spain and find refuge there from the Nazis and Vichy French. The hatred of Gypsies and Jews that is perpetrated by the Vichy allies of Hitler is shared by many Frenchman who are ready to turn them over to the authorities. "Tambourine" is as much a psychological adventure as it is a war story. Through fear, courage, violence, guilt, incredible passion, and unceasing emotional pressures the characters must struggle with how to interact with each other while at the same time struggling to survive. Yet through all their travails the family finds help from unexpected sources - partisan fighters who protect them and welcome them as fellow fighters, Catholic priests who are willing to risk their lives to give them shelter, and simple French families ready to give what help they can. In this "Tambourine" is an affirmation of the basic decency that is at the core of our humanity and a rejection of ethnic hatred. About the Author Born in Israel in 1953, Nily Naiman grew up among Holocaust survivors and their children. Israel of the 1950's was a confused mix of conflicting cultures, traditions, and tragic personal histories, all grating against each other in a new society struggling to define itself. This was the bewildering brew into which she was born. Her work is inspired by her childhood memories of the stories of her parents and their contemporaries. Only now has she begun writing down the pieces of her life that are incorporated into her fiction. Her first novel, "Ahuva," set entirely in Israel, has been published in the U.S.… (altro)
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“A Gypsy would choose flamenco over diamonds,” father used to say. We kept on singing, our eyes gazing at each other; I could guess Chico’s thoughts. “I will dig a hole in the ground, And there I will bury my thoughts, Then I will cry myself to sleep, So my heart will not shatter to pieces.
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I would like to thank my Husband, Howard Naiman for his help and patience.
Jason Pegler for publishing this book.
My son NoamNaiman for the photos and the hard work.
My son, Boaz Naiman for putting up with my repeated calls for help on spelling, on computer functions in general, and for believing in my story.
My daughter Tamar Naiman for helping with editing.
Mr. and Mrs. Gil and Nancy Hidalgo for help with the Spanish.
Miss Eunice Hidalgo for her creativity, her beautiful laughter, and help with editing.
Mrs. Evelyn Maldonado for her help with the Spanish.
And to all those who encouraged me to write the story.
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“Once upon a time, there was a pretty little Gypsy girl,” Mama would start my favorite bedtime story, “far, far away in a land called Spain. The little girl was an incredible dancer. When she danced, she looked like she was floating on air. People passing by would stop and stare at the little girl, shaking their heads and wondering how anybody could dance like that.
“The little girl had beautiful wavy hair and shiny green eyes like emeralds. Everybody was struck by her beauty. More than anything in the world, the little girl wanted a tambourine, but her parents did not have the money to buy her one.” “Why, Mama?” I asked. “They were poor,” she said. “What’s ‘poor’?” “‘Poor’ is when you have no money to buy food or clothes,” Mama explained.
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It is estimated that by the end of the war the Nazis and their minions had murdered seventy to eighty per cent of the Gypsy population of Europe. Approximately 675,000 of these deaths were registered, but many more went unrecorded.
At the Nuremberg trials no representatives of the Gypsies were called to bear witness. No war crimes reparations have been paid to the Roma as a people.
Description "Tambourine" is dedicated to the good, brave people of Spain who provided refuge to Gypsies and Jews fleeing the Vichy French. This is a story of courage and hope in the face of unrelenting danger. It is a story of ingenuity and strength, and the human capacity for survival. Anna and her Gypsy family are in constant risk of their lives as they attempt to reach Spain and find refuge there from the Nazis and Vichy French. The hatred of Gypsies and Jews that is perpetrated by the Vichy allies of Hitler is shared by many Frenchman who are ready to turn them over to the authorities. "Tambourine" is as much a psychological adventure as it is a war story. Through fear, courage, violence, guilt, incredible passion, and unceasing emotional pressures the characters must struggle with how to interact with each other while at the same time struggling to survive. Yet through all their travails the family finds help from unexpected sources - partisan fighters who protect them and welcome them as fellow fighters, Catholic priests who are willing to risk their lives to give them shelter, and simple French families ready to give what help they can. In this "Tambourine" is an affirmation of the basic decency that is at the core of our humanity and a rejection of ethnic hatred. About the Author Born in Israel in 1953, Nily Naiman grew up among Holocaust survivors and their children. Israel of the 1950's was a confused mix of conflicting cultures, traditions, and tragic personal histories, all grating against each other in a new society struggling to define itself. This was the bewildering brew into which she was born. Her work is inspired by her childhood memories of the stories of her parents and their contemporaries. Only now has she begun writing down the pieces of her life that are incorporated into her fiction. Her first novel, "Ahuva," set entirely in Israel, has been published in the U.S.
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