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Aaron's Leap
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781934137703
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: Feb 18 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A multigenerational saga inspired by Bauhaus artists and the impact of the Holocaust's lingering legacy on their children and protégés
In a Europe torn by war and revolution, Berta Altmann comes of age as a gifted artist and independent woman. Her search for freedom leads her from Vienna to the Bauhaus school, Weimar Berlin, and Prague. As she encounters the celebrated artists of her time, she engages in aesthetic and ideological battles that will prove to have life-and-death consequences.
Based on the real-life story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of TerezÃn and died in Auschwitz, Aaron's Leap is framed by the lens of a 21st-century Israeli film crew that unknowingly unleashes the haunting force of buried history.
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