Man of Ashes (Texts and Contexts) He won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for his translation of Diamela Eltit's The Fourth World (Nebraska 1995). To other Hungarians they were Jews, and week by week their world grew worse. In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cat
| Title | : | Man of Ashes (Texts and Contexts) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (219 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803225016 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1999-02-01 |
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Salomon Isacovici was born to a farming family in western Romania. One day in 1940 his family woke as Hungarians, re-nationalised overnight by the changing borders of World War II. To other Hungarians they were Jews, and week by week their world grew worse. In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cattle cars and taken ever closer to the soot and smoke of Auschwitz. He became a man of ashes. Man of Ashes was first published in Mexico in 1990 as A7393: Hombre de cenizas and was awarded the Fernando Jeno Prize. The English translation has been thoroughly revised in collaboration with Salomon Isacovici. Dick Gerdes is a professor of Spanish at George Mason University. He won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for his translation of Diamela Eltit's The Fourth World (Nebraska 1995).
Editorial : From Library Journal In this moving memoir, first published in Spanish in Mexico in 1990, Isacovici writes of his youth spent on a farm on the border between Romania and Hungary. After the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, Isacovici experienced the horrors of the destruction of Jewish life in Europe: ghettos, forced marches, transports, and death camps. Upon returning to his hometown of Sighet (also that of Elie Wiesel) at war's ending, Isacovici decided to leave Europe and, after a few years in Paris, settled in Ecuador with his future wife. The author recounts beautifully his search for God and life's meaning in the midst of catastrophe. Recommended for Jewish studies collections.?Gene Shaw, NYPLCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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