books by Eva Hoffman

books by Eva Hoffman

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Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman

PublicAffairs, 2002

Intriguing story - Absolutely NOT boring!
The Secret is about ..... well, it's not really a secret, is it? You would have to be an idiot not to learn what the secret is in the first chapter or two. Mostly because the protagonist mentions it as something really horrible! (Anyone living through the current ...

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Eva Hoffman

PublicAffairs, 2004

The motion of knowing
In addition to a being a powerful memoir that asks probing questions about the legacy of the Holocaust, this book creates an image of the living nature of knowledge: its origins, its protection, its growth and advance from the private mind into the public domain and ...

Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe

Eva Hoffman

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1994

A Good Portrait of Eastern Europe
After studying the politics and history of Eastern Europe extensively as an undergraduate in college, I read this book and found it simply marvelous, for in all the history and political science books yo are given fact upon fact, but until I read this book I didn't ...

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Eva Hoffman

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990

Enlightening description of immigration and languages
I started reading this wonderful book 6 months before I left Brazil towards Israel. After finishing the first Part (Paradise) I just could not keep on reading, and I abandoned the book for a while. After I landed in Israel I re-took the book and was delighted again ...

Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine Comprised of ...

Shtetl

Eva Hoffman

PublicAffairs, 2007

detailed, unbiased analysis of complex subject
I give this book 5 stars. The author has rejected myths, generalizations, and prejudiced thinking to give a fascinating history of Polish Christians and Polish Jews. She is careful to give the viewpoints of both groups, beginning in the Middle Ages and continuing to ...

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Eva Hoffman

PublicAffairs, 2005

A profound reflection on the Shoah- with a critical omission
This profound work is a reflection of a person of the ' second generation' the Holocaust. It contains a detailed and moving description of the kinds of ` learning' the children of survivors have gone through . It describes the particular burdens including ` ...

Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork

Etty Hillesum

Holt Paperbacks, 1996

If Ann Frank wrote as a vibrant young woman
In nearly all of our nation's middle and high schools the Diary of Anne Frank is required reading. This present volume ought to be a required follow-up reading for the older student. This Owl Books publication includes excellent photographs and commentary to bring ...

Lost in Translation. Ankommen in der Fremde.
Eva Hoffman

Neue Kritik, 2000

After Such Knowledge
Eva Hoffman

Vintage, 2005

Hitlers Silent Victims
Eva M. Hoffman

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As Eva grew she often observed the Gestapo using listening devices to capture any German who spoke badly about Hitler or listened to a radio station other than the one run by Joseph Goebbels. She also witnessed firsthand the injustice done to young, innocent German soldiers who were too frightened to fight in the war and were therefore ...