Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory - Hardcover

Schwarcz, Vera

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300066147 ISBN 13: 9780300066142

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, China scholar Vera Schwarcz explores the meaning of cultural memory in the vastly different Chinese and Jewish traditions. She finds a bridge between the two civilizations-a shared commitment to the transmission of remembrance and to witnessing to the significance of the past-and brings to life the struggles of Chinese and Jewish survivors who managed to preserve the continuity of their long traditions.

About this title

About the Author:

Vera Schwarcz is Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of seven books and over fifty articles on Chinese intellectual history and comparative memory studies, including Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu, published by Yale University Press.

Review:

...a poetic evocation of the wrenching imperative of historical memory and an extraordinary personal story about uncovering family secrets. -- The New York Times Book Review, Judith Shapiro

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0300066147
• ISBN 13: 9780300066142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246