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directorpurry's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
"You assimilate, but you need somewhere to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private."
This is more a family story than a book about art or Jewish history. There were times I felt great kinship with de Waal and the Ephrussi family, and other times I felt nothing at all. Our shared ethnicity was not enough to tie us together.
But through it all I felt such deep sadness - in such a time of destruction and loss, why do you get your art collections back when my grandmother will never know the names of her aunts when both were taken in the same instance?
This is more a family story than a book about art or Jewish history. There were times I felt great kinship with de Waal and the Ephrussi family, and other times I felt nothing at all. Our shared ethnicity was not enough to tie us together.
But through it all I felt such deep sadness - in such a time of destruction and loss, why do you get your art collections back when my grandmother will never know the names of her aunts when both were taken in the same instance?
Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and War
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Confinement and Torture
kibiiiariii's review against another edition
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
2.0
Graphic: Biphobia, Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Deportation
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
4.25
Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and War
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation
Minor: Sexual content
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