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010 2015043408
020 9781594204388
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092 0 305.8 Schlesinger|bengelska
100 1 Buruma, Ian,|d1951-|4aut
245 10 Their promised land :|bmy grandparents in love and war /
|cIan Buruma
264 1 New York, New York :|bPenguin Press,|c[2016]
300 305 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Includes index
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 8 Innehåll: Don't Like the Name -- First Love -- Going to
War -- The Long Wait -- Safe Haven -- The Beginning -- The
End of the Beginning -- Empire -- The Beginning of the End
-- The End -- Epitaph
520 2 "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian
Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love
through the terror and separation of two world wars.
During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi
Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's
grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's
parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered
from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters
back and forth. And write they did, often every day. In a
way they were just picking up where they left off in 1918,
at the end of their first long separation because of the
Great War that swept Bernard away to some of Europe's
bloodiest battlefields. The thousands of letters between
them were part of an inheritance that ultimately came into
the hands of their grandson, Ian Buruma. Now, in a labor
of love that is also a powerful act of artistic creation,
Ian Buruma has woven his own voice in with theirs to
provide the context and counterpoint necessary to bring to
life, not just a remarkable marriage, but a class, and an
age. Winifred and Bernard inherited the high European
cultural ideals and attitudes that came of being born into
prosperous German-Jewish emigre families. To young Ian,
who would visit from Holland every Christmas, they seemed
the very essence of England, their spacious Berkshire
estate the model of genteel English country life at its
most pleasant and refined. It wasn't until years later
that he discovered how much more there was to the story.
At its heart, Their Promised Land is the story of cultural
assimilation. The Schlesingers were very British in the
way their relatives in Germany were very German, until
Hitler destroyed that option. The problems of being Jewish
and facing anti-Semitism even in the country they loved
were met with a kind of stoic discretion. But they showed
solidarity when it mattered most. As the shadows of war
lengthened again, the Schlesingers mounted a remarkable
effort, which Ian Buruma describes movingly, to rescue
twelve Jewish children from the Nazis and see to their
upkeep in England. Many are the books that do bad
marriages justice; precious few books take readers inside
a good marriage. In Their Promised Land, Buruma has done
just that; introducing us to a couple whose love was
sustaining through the darkest hours of the century"--
|cProvided by publisher
600 10 Schlesinger, Bernard,|d1896-1984|vCorrespondence
600 10 Schlesinger, Winifred,|d1897-1986|vCorrespondence
600 10 Buruma, Ian
600 14 Schlesinger, Bernard,|d1896-1984
600 14 Schlesinger, Winifred,|d1897-1986
600 14 Buruma, Ian
648 7 1914-1918 (första världskriget)|2sao
650 0 Jews|zEngland|zLondon|vBiography
650 0 Jews, German|zEngland|zLondon|vBiography
650 0 Jews, German|xCultural assimilation|zEngland|zLondon
650 0 Spouses|zEngland|zLondon|vBiography
650 0 Love-letters|zEngland|zLondon
650 0 World War, 1914-1918
650 0 World War, 1914-1918|xCampaigns
650 0 Jews
650 7 Judar|2sao
650 7 Första världskriget 1914-1918|2sao
651 7 Storbritannien|zLondon|2sao
655 7 Biografi|2saogf
655 7 Korrespondens|2saogf
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
655 7 Personal correspondence.|2lcgft
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