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Book Synopsis
A collection of stories by an award-winning historian that preserves fragments of memory-true or false, remembered or imagined-from three generations of a Jewish family

Trade Review
"One of our most imaginative living historians takes us into the midst of his own past and makes us part of his family, even as he becomes part of our own. This book stands as a triumph of new scholarship and narrative." Alan Cheuse, writer and book commentator for National Public Radio

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Romania, Rumania, Roumania
  • One. The Man Who Swam
  • Two. Far from Hasenpoth
  • Three. Lazarus West
  • Four. Wild Hannah
  • Five. The Afterthought
  • Six. Transylvania Sank
  • Seven. Lower California, Here We Come
  • Eight. Hannah's Lament
  • Nine. Mixed-up Bobby
  • Ten. Izzy the Red
  • Eleven. Café Odessa
  • Epilogue: Sunday in Montreal

The Man Who Swam into History The Mostly True

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/2005
      ISBN13: 9780292709508, 978-0292709508
      ISBN10: 0292709501
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of stories by an award-winning historian that preserves fragments of memory-true or false, remembered or imagined-from three generations of a Jewish family

      Trade Review
      "One of our most imaginative living historians takes us into the midst of his own past and makes us part of his family, even as he becomes part of our own. This book stands as a triumph of new scholarship and narrative." Alan Cheuse, writer and book commentator for National Public Radio

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • Prologue: Romania, Rumania, Roumania
      • One. The Man Who Swam
      • Two. Far from Hasenpoth
      • Three. Lazarus West
      • Four. Wild Hannah
      • Five. The Afterthought
      • Six. Transylvania Sank
      • Seven. Lower California, Here We Come
      • Eight. Hannah's Lament
      • Nine. Mixed-up Bobby
      • Ten. Izzy the Red
      • Eleven. Café Odessa
      • Epilogue: Sunday in Montreal

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