Alice's BookKarina Urbach
Art Nr.: 1529416329
ISBN 13: 9781529416329
Subtitle: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
Release year: 2024
Published by: Quercus Publishing Plc
Cover: Taschenbuch
Cover Format: 198x131x40 mm
Pages: 413
Weight: 294 g
Language: Englisch
Author: Karina Urbach
'A remarkable and important story' BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour'Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines' A.N. Wilson'In a remarkable new book, Alice's granddaughter Karina, a noted historian, has traced what happened to her family but also what happened to the cookbook' Daniel Finkelstein'This fascinating book, by Alice's granddaughter Karina Urbach, shines a spotlight on this lesser-known aspect of Nazi looting' The Times'A gripping piece of 20th-century family history but also something much more original: a rare insight into the 'Aryanisation' of Jewish-authored books during the Nazi regime' Financial TimesWhat happened to the books that were too valuable to burn Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau, and her older son, having emigrated to the United States, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis.Returning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s, she discovers that her bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else's name. Now, eighty years later, the historian Karina Urbach - Alice's granddaughter - sets out to uncover the truth behind the stolen cookbook, and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime, of a woman who, with her unwavering passion for cooking, survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to begin a new life in America.Impeccably researched and incredibly moving, Alice's Book sheds light on an untold chapter in the history of Nazi crimes against Jewish authors.'As this engaging memoir makes clear, the theft of the cookbook remained for Alice's entire life the symbol of everything that had been taken from her' TLSTranslated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Karina Urbach is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge and has taken part in several BBC, PBS and ZDF documentaries. Her 2017 book Go-Betweens for Hitler (OUP) triggered a debate in the UK about the Royal family's links to Nazi Germany. Her biography of Queen Victoria was published with great acclaim in Germany. For her historical novel Cambridge 5 (written under the pseudonym Hannah Coler) she was shortlisted for three literary prizes and won the Crime Cologne Award in 2018. She now lives in Cambridge, UK.
Kurzbeschreibung
Titel: Alice's Book, Untertitel: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook, Einband: Taschenbuch, Autor: Karina Urbach, Verlag: Quercus Publishing Plc, Sprache: Englisch, Seiten: 413, Maße: 198x131x40 mm, Gewicht: 294 g, Verkäufer: Wegmann1855, Schlagworte: Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte Holocaust Judenverfolgung / Holocaust Shoah Judentum / Biografie Kochen / Roman, Erzählung, Essay Weltkrieg 1939/45 / Erinnerung, Brief, Tagebuch Weltkrieg / Zweiter Weltkrieg Weltkrieg 1939/45 Zweiter Weltkrieg HISTORY / Europe / General Vienna Second World War WWII nazi memoir kindertransport Anschluss WW2 book burning cooking cookery school pastry chef dachau jew jewish literature lake district san francisco expropriation copyright Kristallnacht seyss-inquart bratislava ghetto concentration camp gestapo