A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile by Marjorie Agosín, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, Ruth Behar, Marjorie Agosín, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, Ruth Behar

A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
Marjorie Agosín, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, Ruth Behar, Marjorie Agosín, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, Ruth Behar
Page: 232
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780826364128
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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"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..."

In this unique memoir, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era. Woven into the narrative are the stories of Frida's father, who had to leave Vienna in 1920 because he fell in love with a Christian cabaret dancer; of her paternal grandmother, who arrived in Chile later with a number tattoed on her arm; and of her great grandmother from Odessa, who loved the Spanish language so much that she repeated its harmonious sounds even in her sleep. Agosín's memoir is a moving testament to endurance and to the power of memory and of words.

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