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Jewels and Ashes

Arnold Zable returns to the country of his parents and to the family he never knew. He visits his grandparents' birthplace and the places where most of his relatives perished. 'Jewels and ashes' is the result of a journey of discovery - not just for the author but for all those readers whose ancestors grew up in a world they never knew.

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  • "By the momentum of memory, the unsettling fragments of ancestral stories his parents told him as a child. Zable retraces the steps of the generations before him, bringing to life, as he moves among the mass graves and dead cities, the vivid and thriving communities of the 1920s and 1930s. He enters the villages of his family's past, finding the last Jews of Bialystok and Orla, stepping into the "still life" of a synagogue that is shattered and empty, or preserved as a."
  • "In this stunning journey of language and ancestry, nightmare and vision, Arnold Zable undertakes a search for his roots, for a way of life that is no more. Moving seamlessly between past and present, weaving a tale that transcends race, nationality, and religion, Zable recalls his travels by train through the Old World of his Polish/Russian emigrant parents. He enters the countryside of their remembrance, the terrain of his dreams and imagination, urged on all the while."
  • "Arnold Zable returns to the country of his parents and to the family he never knew. He visits his grandparents' birthplace and the places where most of his relatives perished. 'Jewels and ashes' is the result of a journey of discovery - not just for the author but for all those readers whose ancestors grew up in a world they never knew."@en
  • "'Do you ever think about those you left behind?', I ask father. 'Not often', he says. 'Such memories are a luxury I can't afford.' First his parents made a journey to the New World. It was the 1930s, and Europe was seething. As he grew up, Arnold Zable heard tales, songs, fragments of the world they had left behind. He had inherited a fractured, vibrant past which both fascinated and disturbed him. Finally, he had to confront the mystery: he had to travel back to the Old World, to his parents' home, to his grandparents' birthplace, and to a land pervaded by ancestral ghosts. Jewels and Ashe."@en
  • "Wiesel as an interpreter of 20th-century Jewish experience." With writing that is exquisite, Arnold Zable articulates the haunted consciousness of the next generation of survivors."
  • "Museum, equally desolate, estranged from its purpose. In doing so, he comes to understand the inner lives of those who survived, siblings and parents - like his own - who escaped the hatreds of 1930s Europe only to lose, without warning, every trace of their family and former lives. The Australian publication of Jewels and Ashes generated immediate critical acclaim; the Sydney Morning Herald was not alone in suggesting that Zable belongs "in the same company as Elie."
  • "Arnold Zable tells of his search to discover his family history by travelling back to his grandparents' birthplace which they had been forced to leave before the war."@en
  • "Arnold Zable tells of his search to discover his family history by travelling back to his grandparents' birthplace which they had been forced to leave before the war."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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  • "Eydelshṭeyner un ash"
  • "Jewels and Ashes"@en
  • "איידלשטיינער און אש"
  • "Jewels and ashes"
  • "Jewels and ashes"@en
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  • "Aydlshṭeyner un ash"

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