A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) Marjorie Agosin,
Publisher: Feminist Press
ISBN: 1558611762
Edition: Paperback; 1997-08-01
Summary:
"In Osorno, Chile, the Nazis were the great feudal lords of the south
and being Jewish was like possessing a savage and dangerous scar."
The author thus describes the backdrop for this memoir of growing up
as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants to Chile in the years
before and after World War II. Speaking through the voice of her
mother, she says, "I write these sometimes intermittent and true
memories with the voice of an adolescent and then of a woman. . .. I
wish to talk about my life in an unseemly and noisy house in southern
Chile and about a town with fifty Nazis and three Jewish families.
Everything I tell you is true and this is why I write so that it will
be even more certain." This beautifully written story offers glimpses
of cultures and landscapes little known outside Chile. The narrative
weaves back and forth through time offering the stories of the
narrator's family: her father, who had to leave Vienna around 1920
because he fell in love with a Christian cabaret dancer, her paternal
grandmother, who came to Chile in 1939 with a number tattooed on her
arm, her mother's family from Odessa, and numerous aunts and uncles.
The narrator returns to Osorno in 1993 and notes how little has
changed. The Germans still display portraits of Hitler in their homes
and sell Hitler memorabilia.
Salvador Allende reader
(edited with an introduction by James D. Cockroft; assisted by Jane Carolina Canning; with translations by Moisés Espinoza and Nancy Nuñez; ISBN: 1876175249;
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