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The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

English - November 08, 2013 03:00 - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
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What happens when formerly estranged peoples look at their entwined history together? After attending a Zen Peacemaker retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2000, Steinman embarked on a decade-long exploration—into her own family’s history in a small Polish town—as well as an immersion in the exhilarating and discomforting, sometimes surreal, yet ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in today’s democratic Poland.