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1 online resource |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface A VOICE KNOCKS: Chaya Leah Walkin's Story Finds Me -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: THE VIRTUE OF ONE VINEYARD: Jewish Refuge Reconsidered -- CHAPTER 1. IF SHE BE AS A WALL: Pohost and Lukatch before Disaster Strikes -- CHAPTER 2. WATCHMEN PATROLLING THE CITY: Escape Through Vilna to Japan -- CHAPTER 3. AN APPLE TREE NESTLED IN THE WOODS: Respite in Japan -- CHAPTER 4. TENDER KIDS BESIDE THE SHEPHERDS' TENTS: Starting Anew in Shanghai -- CHAPTER 5. IN THE CROOK OF THE ROCK: Expanding the Meaning of Survival -- CHAPTER 6. THE VINE HAS BUDDED: Schooling, Bombings and Beyond -- CHAPTER 7. UNDER THE APPLE TREE: End of the War, End of Refuge in Shanghai -- CHAPTER 8. BEFORE THE SHADOWS OF NIGHT ARE GONE: Starting a New Life in America -- CHAPTER 9. UNTIL IT RIPENS: Marriage, Community, and the Arc of Return -- CONCLUSION: Seeking Your Voice for the Sake of the Unborn -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin--one little girl from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland-- this book illustrates the inner resources of the refugee community that made possible survival with dignity. Based on a wide variety of sources and languages, this book is crafted around the voice of a child who was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland and start the terrifying journey to Vilna, Kobe and Shanghai. The Song of Songs is used to provide an unexpected and poetic angle of vision upon strategies for creating meaning in times of historical trauma"-- Provided by publisher |
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Small, Chaya, 1934-
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Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
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Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish.
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Ethnic relations.
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Jewish refugees.
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Jews.
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Juden
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Flüchtling
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Shanghai (China) -- Biography
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Shanghai (China) -- Ethnic relations
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China -- Shanghai.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781618117878 |
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1618117874 |
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