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Title: Walking with Ghosts

Walking with Ghosts

A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna

by Jennifer Trahan (Author)
©2000 Textbook 264 Pages
German Literature & Culture
Series: Literature and the Sciences of Man, Volume 17

Summary

During a walk to town, Elizabeth Welt Trahan allows the memories of her childhood to surface after more than a half century - first in short, disconnected snippets but then more and more insistently, until she is pulled back into the nightmarish world of Hitler's Vienna where, being Jewish, she barely survived. But this is also the story of the maturing process of a young girl during those shattering times. Despite an aloof and insensitive father, a circle of friends that is continually decimated by deportations, and the abrupt ending of a timid first love relationship, she is able to draw strength from the trivial and small pleasures of daily living.

Details

Pages
264
Year
2000
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820436920
Language
English
Keywords
maturing process father friends deportations first love
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1998, 2000. 264 pp., 28 ill.

Biographical notes

Jennifer Trahan (Author)

The Author: Elizabeth Welt Trahan, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1924, lived in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, from 1929 to 1939, and in Vienna until her departure for the United States in 1947. With degrees from Sarah Lawrence, Cornell, and Yale, she taught at the universities of Massachusetts and Pittsburgh, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and, until 1993, Amherst College. Her publications include textbooks, translations, studies in German, Russian, and comparative literature, and translation and interpretation methodology. Currently, she is the book review editor of The Independent Scholar. She lives in Amherst, MA.

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