| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preparations; Part One. Mir zaynen do; Here, on This Spot; The Nazi Era; The Soviet Era; The Bystander; Part Two. Mes Dar Esame; Our Goal Is to TransformOurselves; An Indelible Memory andan Unhealing Scar; Jewish Ways of Learning; Landsman; I Helped What I Can; Part Three. We Are All Here; From the Archives; At the Gate; Leaving the Jerusalemof the North; Voices of the Shavl Ghetto; The Bystander and theJewish Policeman; Important Dates in LithuanianHistory; Author's Note. |
| Summary |
Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusalem of the North." As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a n. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cassedy, Ellen -- Travel.
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Cassedy, Ellen. |
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Travel. |
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Cassedy, Ellen. |
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Jews -- Lithuania -- History.
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Jews. |
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Lithuania. |
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History. |
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Lithuania -- Description and travel.
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Lithuania -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cassedy, Ellen. We are here. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803230125 (DLC) 2011032474 (OCoLC)746316086 |
| ISBN |
9780803240223 (electronic book) |
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0803240228 (electronic book) |
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9780803230125 |
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0803230125 |
| Standard No. |
9786613664488 |
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