Jumping Over Shadows: A Memoir

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The true story of a German-Jewish love that overcame the burdens of the past. Finalist for the 2017 Book of the Year Award by the Chicago Writers Association &“A book that is hard to put down.&” —Jerusalem Post &“This book confirms Annette Gendler as an indispensable Jewish voice for our time." —Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers "The ghosts of the past haunt a woman&’s search for herself in this thoughtful, poignant memoir about the transformative power of love and faith.&” —Hillary Jordan, author of Mudbound, now a Netflix movie &“An exquisitely written conversion story which expounds upon personal and collective identity.&” —Washington Independent Review of Books &“A compelling, gracefully written memoir about the impact of the past on the present.&” —Michael Steinberg, author of Still Pitching History was repeating itself when Annette fell in love with Harry, a Jewish man, the son of Holocaust survivors, in Germany in 1985. Her Great-Aunt Resi had been married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before World War II―a marriage that, while happy, put the entire family in mortal danger once the Nazis took over their hometown in 1938. Annette and Harry&’s love, meanwhile, was the ultimate nightmare for Harry&’s family. Not only was their son considering marrying a non-Jew, but a German. Weighed down by the burdens of their family histories, Annette and Harry kept their relationship secret for three years, until they could forge a path into the future and create a new life in Chicago. Annette found a spiritual home in Judaism―a choice that paved the way toward acceptance by Harry&’s family, and redemption for some of the wounds of her own family&’s past.
Copyright:
2017

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ISBN-13:
9781631521713
Related ISBNs:
9781631521706
Publisher:
She Writes Press
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Copyrighted By:
Annette Gendler
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Romance, Biographies and Memoirs
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Bookshare Staff
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