

The Girl From Human Street
Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
Author: Roger Cohen
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 01/13/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Modern History, Holocaust, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Synopsis
Cohen illuminates the uneasy resonance of the racism his family witnessed living in apartheid-era South Africa and the ambivalence felt by his Israeli cousin when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank. He explores the pervasive Jewish sense of “otherness” and finds it has been a significant factor in his family’s history of manic depression. This tale of remembrance and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national) both tells an unflinching personal story and contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.