From Library Journal
Friesel (Jewish history, Hebrew Univ.) has combined a personal memoir with an examination of the place of the Jewish people in contemporary life. His engaging account tells the story of his family's escape from Nazi Germany early in 1939, when he was eight; his years growing up in Brazil, where his parents had fled; and his settlement in 1950 in Israel, where he has lived since. His life was punctuated by academic stays later in Germany, England, Brazil, and the United States. Friesel's memoir is written in an easy, flowing style and enlivened with many anecdotes and vivid characterizations. His observations about the nature and destiny of Israel, contemporary German-Jewish relations, and the meaning of the Holocaust are less successful, often ponderous and dense. Suitable for academic libraries with Jewish and Israeli collections.?Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., CUNY
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