{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-grandparents-i-never-had-hardcover","title":"A History of the Grandparents I Never Had - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvan Jablonka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJane Kuntz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with. Neither of them was the least bit famous, and they left little behind except their two orphaned children, a handful of letters, and a passport. Persecuted as communists in Poland, as refugees in France, and then as Jews under the Vichy regime, Matès and Idesa lived their short lives underground. They were overcome by the tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalinism, the mounting dangers in Europe during the 1930s, the Second World War, and the destruction of European Jews. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJablonka's challenge was, as a historian, to rigorously distance himself and yet, as family, to invest himself completely in their story. Imagined oppositions collapsed--between scholarly research and personal commitment, between established facts and the passion of the one recording them, between history and the art of storytelling. To write this book, Jablonka traveled to three continents; met the handful of survivors of his grandparents' era, their descendants, and some of his far-flung cousins; and investigated twenty different archives. And in the process, he reflected on his own family and his responsibilities to his father, the orphaned son, and to his own children and the family wounds they all inherited. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of the Grandparents I Never Had\u003c\/i\u003e cannot bring Matès and Idesa to life, but Jablonka succeeds in bringing them, as he soberly puts it, to light. The result is a gripping story, a profound reflection, and an absolutely extraordinary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvan Jablonka\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Contemporary History at the University Paris 13, France, and Editor-in-Chief of\u003ci\u003eLa Vie des idées\/Books and Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e. This book, first published in French, won the 2012\u003ci\u003ePrix du Sénat du livre d'histoire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrix Guizot de l'Académie française\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003ePrix Augustin-Thierry des Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire de Blois\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468492488957,"sku":"9780804795449","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/amhsWSs1cGZQRndEVTZYeHBZNXZnZz09.webp?v=1777290225","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-grandparents-i-never-had-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}