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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
tea_tamai's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Das erste Drittel des Buches zieht sich, jedoch finde ich das dies im Anblick auf Inhalt und Themen passend die erzählte Geschichte widerspiegelt.
Ich bin froh, es gelesen zu haben und kann es nur weiterempfehlen, für alle die sich mehr mit Geschichte, Kunst und Antisemitismus auseinander setzen wollen.
Ich bin froh, es gelesen zu haben und kann es nur weiterempfehlen, für alle die sich mehr mit Geschichte, Kunst und Antisemitismus auseinander setzen wollen.
Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, War, and Deportation
Moderate: Physical abuse and Suicide
Minor: Infidelity
itsheyfay's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.75
Graphic: Hate crime and Antisemitism
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, and War
Minor: Cursing and Death
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