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Tiny lights for travellers
- Title
- Tiny lights for travellers / Naomi K. Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, Naomi K., 1976-
- Publication
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 281 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved grandfather's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi K. Lewis decides to retrace his journey to learn about her family history. Despite suffering from extreme disorientation and a lifetime of anxiety, she travels alone for the first time. Moving from Amsterdam to Lyon--relying on the marvels of GPS--she discovers family secrets and her own narrative as a second-generation Jewish Canadian. With vulnerability, humour, and wisdom, Lewis's memoir asks tough questions about her identity as a secular Jew, the accuracy of family stories, and the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. How do immigrants weave their sense of identity into their chosen countries? Must we be able to locate ourselves within family and cultural geography to belong?"--
- Series Statement
- Wayfarer series
- Uniform Title
- Wayfarer (Edmonton, Alta.)
- Subject
- Lewis, Naomi K., 1976- > Travel > Europe
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors > Canada > Biography
- Jews, Canadian > Biography
- Jews > Identity
- Identity (Psychology)
- Intergenerational relations
- Judaism and secularism
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
- Jews, Canadian
- Travel
- Europe > Description and travel
- Canada
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10228
- ISBN
- 9781772124484
- 1772124486
- LCCN
- 2019300953
- OCLC
- 1044579424
- Author
- Lewis, Naomi K., 1976- author.
- Title
- Tiny lights for travellers / Naomi K. Lewis.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Wayfarer seriesWayfarer (Edmonton, Alta.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lewis, Naomi K., 1976- Tiny lights for travellers. Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2019 1772124753 9781772124750 (OCoLC)1083346570
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10228