Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey - Couverture rigide

Dekel, Mikhal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1324001038 ISBN 13 : 9781324001034

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran.

Rather than perish in Nazi-occupied Poland, more than a million Jews escaped to the Soviet Union. There they suffered deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated", journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority lived out the war in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; some of them continued to Iran. The story of their suffering has rarely been told.

Following the footsteps of her father, one of a thousand refugee children who travelled to Iran and later to Palestine, Dekel fuses memoir with historical investigation in this account of the all-but-unknown Jewish refuge in Muslim lands. Along the way, Dekel reveals the complex global politics behind this journey, discusses refugee aid and hospitality, and traces the making of collective identities that have shaped the post-war world the histories nations tell and those they forget.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mikhal Dekel is 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1324001038
• ISBN 13: 9781324001034
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 384