{"product_id":"9781922571601","title":"Bobish","description":"Author: Magdalena Ball\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922571601\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Dec 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 100\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough she was only fourteen years old, like many other Jews in Eastern Europe\u0026amp;#x27;s Pale of Settlement in 1907, Rebecca Lieberman gathered her few belongings and left for the United States. What follows is a unique and poetic story of history, war, mysticism, music, abuse, survival and transcendence against the backdrop of New York City in the \u0026amp;#x27;20s, \u0026amp;#x27;30s and \u0026amp;#x27;40s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fourteen-year-old girl is launched by pogroms and poverty into the New World, fearful and alone. How can she know that her great-granddaughter would weave her story, through imagination and a careful reading of history, into a poetic gift to her memory, and for many more generations to come?' - Ramona Koval\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBobish \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMagdalena Ball picks up the thread that connects us to our ancestors weaving it into the fabric of family memory and public history, creating an intensely vivid and evocative work. A narrative montage of exquisite poems, where choices are funnelled by pogroms, racism, pain, poverty, hope, and nourished by music and family. It was a deeply moving experience to read this book.' - Beth Spencer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magdalena's stirring poems are unsettlingly familiar and eerily transcendent. The persistence, the endurance, the quiet resignation, somehow amounts to the telling of a small woman who is nothing less than mighty.' - Gillian Swain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The importance of remembering is a cornerstone of the Jewish faith and in this account of the author's Jewish great-grandmother as she navigates her life of exile, each scene is both clear eyed and evocative, poetic and down to earth, empathetic and far reaching. A marvellous, nourishing book of resilience.' - Judy Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861506543774,"sku":"ADS-9781922571601","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922571601.jpg?v=1779253197","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922571601","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}