Unearthed : a lost actress, a forbidden book, and a search for life in the shadow of the Holocaust
Frank, Meryl2023
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As a child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt Mollie insisted that Meryl never forget who they were, where they came from, and the hate that nearly destroyed them. Over long afternoons, Mollie told her about the city, the theater, and, above all else, Meryl's cousin, the radiant Franya Winter. Franya was the leading light of Vilna's Yiddish theater, a remarkable and precocious woman who cast off the restrictions of her Hasidic family and community to play roles as prostitutes and bellhops, lovers and nuns. Yet there was one thing her aunt Mollie would never tell Meryl: how Franya died. Before Mollie passed away, she gave Meryl a Yiddish book containing the terrible answer, but forbade her to read it. And for years, Meryl obeyed. 'Unearthed' is the story of Meryl's search for Franya and a timely history of hatred and resistance.
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Author:
Frank, Meryl, author
Imprint:
London : Hachette Books, 2023.
Collation:
256 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780306828362 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2342442