{"product_id":"we-are-here-9780803230125","title":"We Are Here","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does a nation - how do successor generations, moral beings - overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Ellen Cassedy confronts in \u003cem\u003eWe Are Here\u003c\/em\u003e, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family's place in it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pioneering. . . . [\u003ci\u003eWe Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e] will reach out to . . . all those who care about not replaying in this new century the disasters of the century that has just ended.”—Michael Steinlauf, author of \u003ci\u003eBondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This eloquent book can help us to reach out, open our hearts, and rediscover one another in a spirit of mutual understanding.”—Hon. Valdas Adamkus, former president of Lithuania\u003cbr\u003e“A most captivating read. Cassedy offers an extraordinary perspective, human and moving, to concerns that often are hidden by tired clichés, sentimentality, or anger. A rare document.”—Samuel Bak, survivor of the Vilna ghetto and author of \u003ci\u003ePainted in Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Uncovering this history with an intimate, personal and investigative approach, Cassedy explores how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews, are confronting their marred past and moving onward.\"—\u003ci\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All answers are tentative. All questions are crucial. Cassedy's quest is brilliantly balanced, totally engaging, and constantly penetrating.\"—Philip K. Jason, \u003ci\u003eJewish Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ellen Cassedy's \u003ci\u003eWe Are Here \u003c\/i\u003echallenges us to think again about what it means to remember the Holocaust in the present. . . . The struggle Cassedy so eloquently engages in to resist the logic of competing memory may be only that much more urgent today than when she was there.\"—Laura Levitt, H Net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreparations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. \u003ci\u003eMir zaynen do\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, on This Spot\u003cbr\u003eThe Nazi Era\u003cbr\u003eThe Soviet Era\u003cbr\u003eThe Bystander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. \u003ci\u003eMes Dar Esame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Goal Is to Transform Ourselves\u003cbr\u003eAn Indelible Memory and an Unhealing Scar\u003cbr\u003eJewish Ways of Learning\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Helped What I Can\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. We Are All Here\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Archives\u003cbr\u003eAt the Gate\u003cbr\u003eLeaving the Jerusalem of the North\u003cbr\u003eVoices of the Shavl Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eThe Bystander and the Jewish Policeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImportant Dates in Lithuanian History\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405248307543,"sku":"9780803230125","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803230125.jpg?v=1730489274","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/we-are-here-9780803230125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}