Jill Laurie Goodman
By Jill Laurie Goodman
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News Traveling With Joseph Roth, Always the Outsider and Ever the Exile
Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939 By Joseph Roth, translated with introduction by Michael Hofmann WW Norton & Company, 224 pages, $24.95. * * *| From 1919 to 1939, Europe dwelt in the eye of a storm. Nothing was normal. The sky was yellow, the air still but menacing. Whole countries lay…
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News Wrestling the Demons Within
Lost in America: A Journey With My Father By Sherwin B. Nuland Knopf, 112 pages, $24. * * *| Stock figures and set pieces tend to dominate the well-limned territory of memoirs written by the children of the early 20th-century immigrants who stepped off the boats from Odessa, Danzig or St. Petersburg and found, alas,…
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