Art of Being a Stranger A Family Memoir

Sommario

1. Vienna 1922–1938
What a Magnificent Panorama 1
Already I Knew That God Did Not Exist

2. Palestine 1938–1948
Black Leather Coat
A Dog-or-Eat-the-Dog World

3. New York 1948–2013
Remember Me, Charlie?
Building Maintenance 1
The Projects
It’s Not a Question of IF but of WHEN
Secure in the Knowledge That I Am a Stranger
Made for the Ear of God
Bone by Jewelled Bone
A Wall of Forgetting
Building Maintenance 2
The Hemlock Society Charter Vacation
Then All of a Sudden It Began
I Have Been Where You Have Not Been
The Drop
How We Got Through
What a Magnificent Panorama 2
The Cookies

Info autore

Karen Bermann is professor emerita of architecture at Iowa State University, where she specialized in beginning design, drawing, and teaching in the Rome study abroad program. Prior to earning a bachelor of architecture at The Cooper Union, she worked on sweat equity rehabilitation on the Lower East Side in the building that first brought solar and wind energy to New York City. She has published and presented widely in academic contexts on questions of identity, memory, and place. She lives in Rome.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Bermann
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 02.09.2025
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9781487565275
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-6527-5
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Categorie: Religionsgeschichte, Geschichte der Religion, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, HISTORY / Jewish, Judentum / Erinnerung, Brief, Tagebuch