Gilda Moss Haber
Auteur de Cockney Girl
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Œuvres de Gilda Moss Haber
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- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Washington D.C. Metro Area - Études
- London School of Economics
Columbia University
New York University - Professions
- professor
- Organisations
- Mensa
University of Maryland, College Park
Montgomery College - Courte biographie
- Gilda Moss Haber, PhD is a second-generation British Jewish-East End London cockney educated at Spitalfield Girls' High School, London School of Economics, Columbia and NYU. She immigrated to America to pursue graduate studies en route to settling in Israel. Still en route, she frequently visits and speaks to audiences across America, England, Israel and other countries. She is a professor at Montgomery College in Maryland, and teaches Social Psychology and English. She has written on Proxemics, territoriality, Opera Houses internationally, Sumptuary Law, and has published short stories and fiction. She is a member of Mensa and Jewish academic and author organisations. [from Cockney Girl (2012)]
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 6
- Popularité
- #1,227,255
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Besides her colorful family of two sets of grandparents, an aunt and an uncle and other relatives, Gilda meets an array of characters out of central casting over these years--from the numerous ‘aunts’ her mother finds to take care of her, to the dizzying succession of foster parent billets in which war officials place her. Each of the characters Gilda encounters along the way is memorable and exquisitely drawn. They live and breathe on the page—from her friend, Violet, and Nurse Harris in the orphanage to Mr. Shapiro in the Jewish refugee hostel.
The prose sparkles and compels the reader to keep turning the pages to find out what happens to Gilda next.
Along the way the reader also receives a history lesson. Of all the countless books about WWII and the Holocaust there are few about Great Britain. Gilda reveals the deep-seated anti-Semitism that emerges in the Cable Street battle. Unlike Kristallnacht that happened two years later in Germany, however, Jews, dock workers, unions and others surged into the streets to foil the Fascists’ intent to destroy property and beat up the inhabitants in the Jewish neighborhood on London’s East side. This same anti-Semitism also appears in the countryside where some of her foster parents checked her head for Jewish horns.
Gilda dedicates her book to the memory of Anne Frank. Gilda was lucky to have been born in England and saved from Anne’s fate at the hands of the Nazis. There are, however, some similarities in their books. Both were put into confined circumstances not of their own choosing and most importantly, both were writers. Despite both girls being out of main action, both describe their times, paint the portraits of those in their vicinity, and make the reader smile as well as weep.… (plus d'informations)