When Memory Comes Author:Saul Friedlander This remarkable memoir, by a distinguished historian, grows out of the loose framework of a diary written in Israel during the tense last few months of 1977. IN a series of flashbacks, Saul Friedlander wvokes with painful clarity and candor his extraordinary childhood and adolescence, beginning in a comfortable, middle-class, assimilated Jeish h... more »ome in the Prague of the 1930's, and extending through and beyond the harrowing and permanet, separation from his parents in Nazi-dominated France, Though fascinating in themsilves, on a deeper level the reminiscences raise questions about much more than one man's life. In forcing himself to go back and eamine his past, to seek out reasons and feelings,, Friedlander is asking what it is that motivates a Zionist. What does it mean to be a Jea in Israel now? Where are the roots of a people with a history of root lessness? ...
Translated from the French by Helen R. Lane.« less