Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism - Couverture souple

Kenez, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1879383306 ISBN 13 : 9781879383302

Editeur : University Press of America, 1994

Synopsis

This is a first-person account of growing up in Hungary under Nazism and Communism. Beginning in Hungary in the 1940s and ending up more than a decade later in America. The narrative tells of a Jewish boy's daily life under extraordinary circumstances. Kenez relates details of day-to-day existence during wartime, the post-war period, and the 1956 rebellion. The juxtaposition of daily routine and extraordinary events provides a view of history, humankind's survival instinct, and the effects of growing up in a national atmosphere of uncertainty, distrust and fear.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is an absorbing memoir by a major historian of the Soviet Union, which relates a harrowing youth and coming of age. It is at once moving and matter of fact. It accomplishes the goals of good autobiographical writing: the illumination of some larger truth by focusing on the smaller and more personal realm of life.

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Kenez is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After leaving his native Hungary in 1956, he studied at Princeton and Harvard. He is the author of several books on Soviet history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1879383306
• ISBN 13: 9781879383302
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible