Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy

Broschiertes Buch

Playing Detective with Family Lore

How plugging the holes in a family history unintentionally came to tell the saga of Jews in a microcosm

Beschreibung

Playing Detective with Family Lore is more than one family's saga. The far-ranging origins of the author's family and the course of the progenitors' lives and those of their descendants provide a microcosmic illustration of the macro-level triumphs and tragedies of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America. From the tiny Radekhiv shtetl to the famous Polish market town Jaroslaw, from the Russian port city Nikolayev - inside of the Pale of Settlement during the 1905 pogroms, to Jassy - rife with unique antisemitic legislation following Romanian independence, this book unwittingly traces a collective history epitomized by one particular family's combined narratives, making it a 'must read' for the 80% of American Jews who trace their ancestry back to Eastern Europe. Playing Detective with Family Lore goes beyond Researching Your Family History Online for Dummies. Offering more than a ringside seat how to mine information online, the author, a seasoned journalist, shares her expertise with budding memoirists. She explores how the skills and the logic of a Sherlock Holmes can be employed to stitch together snippets of information in order to forge a more coherent whole that may confirm, contest, augment, or complicate oral family lore. Not your run-of-the-mill memoir, the structure is a tad unique. Sprinkled at the bottom of the pages, academic footnotes are repurposed to create a new genre: Experiential Reading. The links to historical footage, photos, and short texts make reading this work closer to a virtual museum than a traditional e-book.

Autor

Daniella (née Weiss) Ashkenazy was born and raised in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area and immigrated to Israel more than 50 years ago (in 1968 in her early twenties). She is a well-published bilingual Israeli freelance journalist. With an undergraduate degree in sociology and a lifetime as a history buff with far-ranging reading tastes, since 1985 Ashkenazy's works-commentary, political analysis, humor and satire columns and major features-have appeared in Hebrew and English in Israel's leading papers and periodicals, from the Jerusalem Post and Israel Scene to Davar, HaOlam HaZeh and Yediot. Her highly stylized features in Hebrew were often quoted on Israeli radio among the 'best reads' of the weekend papers. Parallel to journalism, Ashkenazy freelances as a translator and developmental editor for Israeli academics. As a pen-for-hire, she researched and ghostwrote two books and countless white papers and op-eds for Myths and Facts about the Israeli-Arab conflict. Ashkenazy also served as editor-contributor to a well-received academic volume published in 1994 by Greenwood Press about the IDF's non-military facets and the Challenge of the Dual-Role Military. She lives with her husband Rafi in Kfar Warburg-a rural village south of Tel Aviv, and has three adult children and four grandchildren. More information, including excerpts and reviews, are available on the book website: www.playingdetective.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewishselfpublishing
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9789657041161
• ISBN-10: 9657041163
• Artikelnr.: 60668083