| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (314 pages) : map, portraits |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Barbarossa -- The Dniester -- The vase -- Passover and the bear -- Moses -- The relatives -- Boarders! -- Love among the dead -- First love -- Winter -- Zionism -- The road to Kiev -- The Kolkhoz -- A new assignment -- Rostov -- A new and unusual friend -- Another farewell -- Kazakhstan -- Fedya's chat -- Engagement -- June 1941 -- German class -- Voskresenye -- Sitting in the sun -- A trip to the doctor -- A second life -- Zakti's wedding -- A letter -- The front -- My brother -- Occupation -- Doctor Polyakov -- These mean ruins -- The city of dreams -- The price of loyalty -- The train to Minsk. |
| Summary |
The Broken Vase is a roman a clef written by Phillip H. McMath based upon research done by his co-author, Emily Matson Lewis, and in close collaboration with Holocaust survivor Penina Krupitsky, who appears in the novel as the fictional Miriam Kellerman. With the help of the World Jewish Organization, Mrs. Krupitsky emigrated from the Soviet Union with her family to the United States and now lives in Arkansas. Born to middle-class parents in July 1924 in North Bukovina, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Miriam Kellerman grows up in an atmosphere of culture and privilege that is interrupted when her country is invaded, first by Stalin in July 1940, then by Hitler in June 1941. Fearing for their lives, Jews like Miriam begin to flee into the Soviet Union to escape the German advance. Separated from her parents, Deborah and Max, and later from her fiance, Isaac, Miriam finds herself alone and on foot, trudging ever eastward. This novel's compelling narrative chronicles her incredible struggle to stay alive as World War II rages. Mrs. Krupitsky lives in Little Rock with her husband, children, and grandchildren. She remains active in Holocaust remembrance organizations around the world and says that she wants The Broken Vase "to help young people and become an inspiration to them. It will teach them how to build a world of love and not of hatred." |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Krupitsky, Penina, 1924- -- Fiction.
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Krupitsky, Penina, 1924- (OCoLC)fst01944973
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
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FICTION / General.
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Lewis, Emily Matson.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McMath, Phillip H., 1945- Broken vase. First edition 9781935106203 (DLC) 2010021222 (OCoLC)632226863 |
| ISBN |
9781935106449 (electronic bk.) |
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1935106449 (electronic bk.) |
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