{"product_id":"a-tempered-wind-an-autobiography-9780810126138","title":"A Tempered Wind: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoet Karen Gershon opens \u003ci\u003eA Tempered Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, the sequel to volume 1 of her autobiography \u003ci\u003eA Lesser Child, \u003c\/i\u003e in 1943. It begins tragically with the death of Karen's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the \u003ci\u003eKindertransport \u003c\/i\u003emission. \u003ci\u003eA Tempered Wind \u003c\/i\u003eproceeds to chart the difficult period from 1939 to 1943 as Karen adapts to a new culture and undertakes the complicated passage from adolescence to adulthood in the British Isles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow orphans--their parents were murdered by the Nazis--the sisters are separated, and Karen is left haunted by feelings of abandonment by her sister as well as her parents who sent her away from them. Such feelings, along with her struggle with her imperiled Jewish identity, make their way into Karen's writing, which includes stories, essays, and poems. In writing, she starts to find a home in language. Charting the creative growth of an astonishing Jewish author, \u003ci\u003eA Tempered Wind\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with Karen making her own urgent way as a writer with a mission to tell the world her archetypal German Jewish story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-876902\"\u003eKaren Gershon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.75h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810126138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810126133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO006000\"\u003eHistorical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and writer \u003cb\u003eKAREN GERSHON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1923-1993) was born Kaethe Loewenthal in Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany. In 1948 she married a Gentile art teacher, Val Tripp. They had four children. In 1957, she assumed the nom de plume Karen Gershon, her father's Hebrew name, meaning \"stranger in a strange land.\" The Tripps emigrated to Israel in 1968, returning to Britain in 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePHYLLIS LASSNER\u003c\/b\u003e is a distinguished senior lecturer at Northwestern University, teaching courses in writing, Jewish studies, and gender studies. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen; \u003ci\u003eBritish Women Writers of World War II; Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire; \u003c\/i\u003eand, in addition to articles on interwar and wartime women writers, \u003ci\u003eAnglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER LAWSON\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate lecturer at the Open University in London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor of a unique anthology of poems, \u003ci\u003ePassionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain Since 1945\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written widely on Holocaust literature, including \u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44687182201069,"sku":"9780810126138","price":27.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_3b62bb88-125e-4182-baee-5168245c0435.jpg?v=1703657028","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/a-tempered-wind-an-autobiography-9780810126138","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}