The Lost LP: A Search for Six of Six Million
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061491801 (0061491802)
Publish date: May 13th 2008
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Pages no: 960
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
War,
Jewish,
Religion,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Judaism,
Poland
This is a compelling book. Mendelsohn keeps the focus on the search as opposed to disgressing to talk about himself as many writer in similar books do. Mendelsohn also does not talk down to the reader. At first, I was put off a little by the sections that dealt with commentary about The Torah. I...
I just couldn't do it. I know I'm supposed to be interested but...yaaaawwwnnnn.
This book is sad and beautiful and riveting. The story itself isn't unusual since the fate of this family was the fate of many European Jews in the Holocaust. But the author pursues the story with such loving care, and the uncovering of what happened is handled almost unbearably well. I also enjoyed...
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