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Edith Eger ’s National Jewish Book Award–winning memoir is a paean to the power of hope. In the memoir, the nonagenarian author recounts her remarkable life before, during, and after internment in Nazi concentration camps. During the time I read Eger’s terrifying and inspirational account, I was mindful that anti-Semitic hate crimes still disfigured the American landscape. Before I could finish her narrative, Jews were murdered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. An already compelling book then took on a much more somber note.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Book forum Source Type: research