Jewels and Ashes by Arnold Zable

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has removed half-title page presumably to remove ownership details. Title page remains.

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 that 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 Ashes is the result of that journey of discovery. Moving effortlessly between centuries and continents, and across inner and outer land-scapes, it is an astonishing achievement. In one stroke, the Jewish historical experience has become a gift to the world.

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. (Trove)