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In the Garden of Memory: A Family Memoir

W ogrodzie pamięci

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (born 1934)

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

English editions

In English

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The author's grandmother, her siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins were assimilated Jews and Polish intellectuals: diligent positivists who saw service to the nation as their task, and romantic madmen who believed they could move the world. Starting from a great-great-grandfather, the Viennese rabbi Eleazar Horowitz, the family of the publishers Mortkowicz is followed into the gears of the communist and Nazi totalitarian systems. Drawing on the notes, documents and stories the family left behind, the book opens onto a whole century of great illusions and deep defeats.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
357 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Poland
First published
2001 by Znak
Author's age
67 when first published
ISBN

9788324001101 (original)

9780297645498 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, United Kingdom)

9781953943699 (Rivertowns Books, United States)

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