New ebooks From Canadian Indies
Description
This collection presents an arc of historical experience of Jewish child and teen life during the Shoah. Across Central and Eastern Europe, the young and hunted in these stories hide in forests; survive in ghettoes and camps; assume new identities under the protection of Righteous Among the Nations. With the exception of two historical fiction narratives, the stories were reconstructed from the oral testimonies of child and teen survivors, many of whom settled in Toronto. As a daughter of two child survivors, Carol Lipszyc has also included stories of her parents, natives of Belarus and Lublin, Poland. The stories in this collection depict children as creative, resilient, aged-before their time, as they adapt to their unconscionable reality. The historical experience in this collection provides a wide spectrum of what a race of children endured; the few that attested to that experience in this collection lend voice, detail and insight to a massive, unfathomable crime.
Contributor Notes
Carol Lipszyc's book of poetry, Singing Me Home, was published by Inanna Publications in 2010. Recent poems have been published in Canadian Woman Studies, Room, Parchment. Her short fiction has appeared in Parchment, Midstream, www.jewishfiction.net. Earning her Doctorate in Education at OISE, Carol has published on arts-based and interdisciplinary education in Journal of Artistic and Creative Education, University of Melbourne, Complicity, University of Alberta, and Learning Landscapes in Quebec. Her Literacy/ESL Reader with chants, People Express, was published by Oxford University Press. Carol is currently an Associate Professor at State University of New York, Plattsburgh teaching English teacher education and writing arts.
Editorial Review
"Carol Lipszyc's stories are both moving and historically accurate. Her documentary style provides a sense of what life was like for young persons not only during the catastrophe, but in the months before and after. Readers should not expect stereotypical Shoah-tales. Complexities abound. I was particularly struck by the final tale, "A Jewish Interrogation," in which a young survivor who has passed herself off as a Pole, is interrogated after the war by fellow Jews and made to prove her Jewishness. This is indicative of the uncanny way in which several of Lipszyc's stories explore Jewish identity."--Kenneth Sherman, author of What the Furies Bring, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award. "Carol Lipszyc's book takes us into the world of Jewish child victims of the Holocaust before they became survivors. Her sensitive literary style then makes us companions to the experiences of those Jewish children in the Holocaust. Lipszyc's literary genre is a valuable addition to child survivor testimonies and autobiographies."--Paul Valent, child survivor of the Holocaust, traumatologist, writer, author of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
