Chocolates from Tangier
Autor: Jana Zimmer•Anglicky•2023•DoppelHouse Press
Monogafie o vzpomínách na holocaust přetransformované do umění. Jana Zimmer patřící do druhé generace holokaustu, propojuje střípky z historie své rodiny s osobními deníky, básněmi a uměleckými díly. Její kniha, vydaná v USA v roce 2023, přináší poutavý pohled na život jejích rodičů, kteří přežili holocaust, a na vlastní umělecký proces, sloužící jako forma vzpomínání a transformace. Nakladatelství Dopplehouse.
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Název: Chocolates from Tangier • ISBN: 9781954600102 • Jazyk: Anglicky • Rok: 2023 • EAN: 9781954600102 • Hmotnost: 1.50 kg • Vazba: brožovaná • Počet stran: 272 • Rozměr: 152x228 • Nakladatel: DoppelHouse Press
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Detail knihy ~ Chocolates from Tangier, Jana Zimmer
A second-generation Holocaust survivor weaves together fragments of her family’s history and witness testimony in narrative and collage, using her art as transformation and remembrance.“Never, never, never ask Daddy about her.” For fifty years, Jana Zimmer obeyed her mother’s directive, until her mother died, leaving behind a trove of family photos and documents, mostly in Czech, with just a few cryptic notes as explanation, for her only child to knit the family’s past together. Late in her own life, Zimmer became a visual artist. The words and images in this book convey her journey to understand her parents and their experiences in the Holocaust, filtered through her own discoveries decades after returning to her birthplace, Prague, and to Terezín, where her family was first interned.
Exhibitions of Zimmer’s artwork in 2007, both in Prague and at the Terezín Ghetto Museum, were mainly inspired by her half-sister, Ritta, who perished in Auschwitz before Zimmer was born, and by her father’s grief over that loss. Ritta’s drawings made in Terezín, now in the Prague Jewish Museum’s collection of children’s artwork from the ghetto, populate Zimmer’s book as well as spare photographs and mementos that reflect Zimmer’s internal world — that of a “Holocaust replacement child.
