Always from somewhere else : a memoir of my Chilean Jewish father / Marjorie Agosín ; translated fr...
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.
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Publisher
New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1998.
Date
1998.
Call Numbers
N983.004924/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
260 p. : ports. ; 19 cm.
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: Exil...
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Publisher
New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1998.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1998.
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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 journe...
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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.
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The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series.
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N983.004924/1
Record Identifier
74VvRx4EVKkO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvRx4EVKkO
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DDC
983.0049240092
MMS ID
991009243919702626
