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Product Description Mark Verstandig's compelling epic spans pre-Holocaust Jewish culture in Eastern Europe and its post-war reformation in Australia. His personal story interweaves the vast forces of politics and history with intimate details of the shtetl - from the pre-war intricacies of Galician society and the textures of a traditional Jewish religious education, to the agonizing contradictions of Polish-Jewish relations and the complexities of post-war Jewish politics. With his gift for observation and his acute powers of analysis, Mark Verstandig has achieved the rare feat of telling the story of his people through its own history. Part autobiography, part Holocaust literature, part sociological analysis, I Rest My Case is a fine achievement. Review '. . . he comes over hard and eloquent and calling a spade a spade. I would like to see other examples of his writing.' -- Max Teichmann Eureka Street 'In a cool, precise densely detailed and lawyer-like way, the author , a survivor of the holocaust, has written both a personal story and a history of terror, brutality and murder.' -- John Bryant Canberra Times 'It is a major work of sociological and historical significance . . . [which] transcends the academic to become memorable journalism and literature.' -- Sam Lipski, Jewish News 'Mark Verstandig has written a fine, honest and courageous autobiography . . . His book is a contribution to the old human struggle - for memory against forgetting.' -- Robert Manne Herald Sun About the Author Mark Verstandig lives in Melbourne, where he has always been active in community affairs and, now in his eighties, is still a well-known Yiddish broadcaster, public speaker and journalist. I Rest My Case was translated from Yiddish by his daughter (Felicity Verstandig)
Publication Data:
Author(s): Mark Verstandig
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Pages: 306
Language: en
Category: Biography and Memoirs
Genre: JEWS_PERSECUTIONS, HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)_PERSONAL NARRATIVES, POLAND_HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY
ISBN: 0522847811
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