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Always from somewhere else : a memoir of my Chilean Jewish father

Title
Always from somewhere else : a memoir of my Chilean Jewish father / Marjorie Agosín ; translated from the Spanish by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman ; introduction by Elizabeth Rosa Horan.
Author
Agosín, Marjorie.
Publication
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998.

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Kostopulos-Cooperman, Celeste.
Description
260 pages : illustrations, portraits; 19 cm.
Summary
  • In the search for her father's origins, Agosin begins with the story of his parents, a tailor and a cigarette-maker who meet in Odessa in 1890. In their flight from persecution and their search for a better life, Abraham and Rachel Agosin travel to Istanbul, then briefly to Marseilles, where Moises is born in the interim between two long sea journeys, "saved from the waters" like the biblical Moses.
  • The family's continuing search for a home brings them at last to Quillota, Chile, a "city of churches and avocados," where they find a small measure of stability along with a large dose of prejudice. Moises Agosin's work makes him a respected research scientist, but decades after his parents' voyages; as Chile falls under the dictatorship of Pinochet, he must take his family on their final journey of exile, to the United States.
Series Statement
The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series
Uniform Title
Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series.
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Contents
Introduction: Reading the Book of Memory / Elizabeth Rosa Horan -- Prologue: Crossings -- Origins: From Sebastopol to Valparaiso, 1910-1926 -- Quillota: City of Churches and Avocados, 1926-1939 -- The Arpeggios of Memory -- Santiago: Capital of Dreams and Fugues, 1940-1968 -- The United States: Exiles in a Promised Land, 1968-1997 -- Memory's Place -- Epilogue: My Father and I, Memories of Love.
ISBN
  • 1558611959
  • 0155861195 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
98036346
OCLC
ocm39875095
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries