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1	Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis more books like this by Karolina Lanckoronska, Countess, Noel Clark (Translator), Eva Hoffman (Preface by) add to wishlist In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoroska, wealthy landowner and professor of art history, watched the Soviet army march into Poland. After joining the resistance, she was arrested, sentenced to death, and held in Ravensbruck concentration camp. There she taught art history to other women who, like her, might be dead in a few days. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork more books like this by Etty Hillesum, Eva Hoffman (Introduction by) add to wishlist For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. ... see all copies from $6.86! new only from $14.16! \| SVS
4	After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors, and the second-generations responsibilities to its received memories? In this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Sixty years after the Holocaust, the author of Lost in Translation explores the difficult process of preserving an authentic version of its tragic events. As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Appassionata more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of modern times, as she explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $13.74! \| SVS
7	Exit Into History: 2a Journey Through the New Eastern Europe more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist In this intimate narrative journey, Hoffman returns to her Polish homeland and five other countries--Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and the two nations of former Czechoslovakia. Illuminates the region's complex politics and captures the texture of everyday life in a world of flux. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.43! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss more books like this by Andre Aciman (Editor) add to wishlist Five writers who live in the U.S. but were born elsewhere give their views on being an exile: André Aciman, Eva Hoffman, Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Said, and Charles Simic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.67! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Shortly after the dramatic events of 1989, Eva Hoffman spent several months travelling through her native Poland and four other Eastern European countries which had just undergone an historic transformation. This is the personal narrative of that journey and a portrayal of a social landscape in the midst of change. While making her way from the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions
10	Policing Public Sex more books like this by Dangerous Bedfellows Eds, Wayne Hoffman (Editor), Eva Pendleton (Editor) add to wishlist Essays concerning sexual attitudes and AIDS, in response to those who would equate unbridled sexuality with death. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.64! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Today, the word "shtetl" (Yiddish for "small town") summons only hazy, distant associations: images of Chagall-like crooked streets and Sabbath dinners on the one hand, of pogroms and brutal Cossacks on the other. In fact the shtetl was a highly resilient micro-society with its own customs, beliefs and rituals, its own social distictions, ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $11.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World more books like this by Eva R Hoffman (Editor) add to wishlist "Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World" is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. It is a comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine. This work: ... see all copies from $40.52! new only from $47.95! \| SVS
13 view cover	Lost in Translation more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman made a voyage that took her from the familiar, loved country of her childhood to the unknown New World. Her life was irrevocably divided in two. In this personal memoir, she evokes the landscapes of postwar Poland - recently war-torn, suffering oppression, yet also the land of friends, first love, first home. She ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $11.22!
14 view cover	Shtetl Pa more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Hoffman writes about Jews in Poland, their history and their present situation, particularly in one small shtetl, the village of Bransk. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Shtetl CL: Avail in Paperback more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Hoffman writes about Jews in Poland, their history and their present situation, particularly in one small shtetl, the village of Bransk. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Secret more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist A few years in the future, the heroine of Hoffman's novel seeks to track down the true facts of her birth. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Shtetl : the history of a small town and an extinguished world more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Hoffman explores the culture and institutions of Polish Jews, and by probing the deep ambivalence that coloured relations between Poles and Jews on the eve of World War II she throws new light on motives which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to rescue or betray their Jewish neighbours. Originally published in 1998 by Secker and Warburg. see all copies from $4.19! new only from $52.00!
18 view cover	Etty Hillesum more books like this by Etty Hillesum, Eva Hoffman (Introduction by) add to wishlist Etty Hillesum's accounts of the Holocaust bring to life the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Like Anne Frank, Hillesum was a Dutch Jew living in Amsterdam. She brings an adult's perspective to the experience as she recounts the deportations and increasing terror of life under the Nazis. This volume includes the diary she kept in Amsterdam as ... see all copies from $12.42!
19 view cover	Time by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Time is the one dimension of experience we cannot elude. But the nature of lived time is changing dramatically. We are living ever longer, but we suffer from endemic shortages of time. For many, in the inversion of the old motto, time has become a more valuable commodity than money. Middle age and old age have been moved back, with a numerical ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $14.15! \| first editions
20 view cover	Illuminations more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose playing is marked by rare intensity, and for whom each performance is a plunge into the compelling world of the music. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, and the fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $17.54!
21 view cover	Establishing Academic Structures in Computer Science at Herat University more books like this by Alexandra Balschun, Eva Maria Hoffman, Jan Suhr add to wishlist see all copies from $96.80! new only from $96.80!
22	A Guidebook to Amtrak's California Zephyr: Salt Lake City to San Francisco more books like this by Eva J Hoffman add to wishlist see all copies from $153.58!
23 view cover	Time: Big Ideas, Small Books by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series Time has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these ... see all copies from $6.34! new only from $10.46! \| SVS
24 view cover	The secret : a fable for our time more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist "Of course, I've always had a secret. Have I always known it? I suppose I did, in a way - in the way that children know such things. That is, I knew and didn't know..." In this novel Eva Hoffman explores various kinds and strata of secrets: intimate secrets, and secrets of family past; the kinds of secrets that can be decoded from clues, and the ... see all copies from $18.05! first editions
25	Stravaganza-Stadt Der Masken by Eva; Hoffman Riekert, Mary add to wishlist see all copies from $15.41! new only from $32.65!

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