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Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's PeaceIn this "extraordinary family memoir,"* the National Book Award winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned. *The New York Times Book Review In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the
In this "extraordinary family memoir,"* the National Book Award-winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned. *The New York Times Book Review In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the entire Jewish community would be sent to Hitler's concentration camps. Ruzya Solodovnik was a Russian-born intellectual who would become a high-level censor under Stalin's regime. At war's end, both women found themselves in Moscow. Over the years each woman had to find her way in a country that aimed to make every citizen a cog in the wheel of murder and repression. One became a hero in her children's and grandchildren's eyes; the other became a collaborator. With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Masha Gessen, one of the most trenchant observers of Russia and its history today, peels back the layers of time to reveal her grandmothers' lives--and to show that neither story is quite what it seems. Praise for Masha Gessen "One of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation."--David Remnick, The New Yorker"Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest."--Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 10/25/2005
ISBN: 9780385336055
Pages: 371
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.30w x 0.75d
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 01/22/2006 pg. 20
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Very informative and should be read by those who seek deeper understanding
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Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016
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Beautifully translated, a joy to read
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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2017
★★★★★ 4
Translation not Literal!
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The fist volume had a more literal translation then the second.
If first Clement and Didache are in your reading list, Shepard of Hermas will fit there too!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2018
★★★★★ 3
At times it has been somewhat repetitive and tedious to read
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One of the earliest books in Christianity, The Shepherd of Hermas was probably written around 140AD, and avidly read for the first few hundred years. Likely its failure to become one of the recognized books of the Canon (Bible) had something to do with its fall-off in popularity. Today, while an Apocryphal book from the age of Apostolic Fathers, it seems arcane, and somewhat desultory. Nevertheless, one can see this book as a vision, a dream, or even an attempt to describe elements of purgatory. Both Latin and Greek copies, at least in part have been found, there are also parts missing which make reading it a bit of a challenge. At times it has been somewhat repetitive and tedious to read.
I read the edition and translation from the Greek by Bart D. Ehrman: "The Apostolic Fathers Vol. II" from the Loeb Classical Library. The original author was claimed by some to be the brother of Pope Pius I. It is interesting to have a view into what the Council Fathers were looking at when deciding what to add to the Canon, and what not to add. The probings by our minds, between the dark and the daylight, are not so different a few thousand years later. How is God going to judge me and my sins? What must I do to prepare? What is within my ability and what is not? And where do I fit in His Kingdom?
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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014
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