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Reviewed on July 15, 2006
Mendelsohn (humanities, Bard Coll.;The Elusive Embrace ) opens this new work by describing his relationship with his story-telling grandfather and the latter�s almost deafening silence about the fate of a brother, Shmiel, killed by the Nazis. While the book revolves around the author�s decades-long search to discover the fate of his great uncle�s family, this quest also leads to the compilation of a family genealogy and the discovery of various living rela...Log In or Sign Up to Read More