Helen Epstein Livres

A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews, victims of Stalinism, who were "rehabilitated" years after they were hanged.

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

What makes some societies more vulnerable to AIDS than others? Why is the HIV epidemic so severe in Africa and why have governments and NGOs largely failed to halt its progress? Epstein goes to the heart of why epidemics spread and what we should be doing to stop them.

After the death of her mother, author and journalist Helen Epstein set out to uncover her mother's past and to learn more about her grandmother and great- grandmother, victims of the Holocaust. The result is this compelling biography, both a chronicle of three generations of women and a social history of Czechoslovakia's Jews.

Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors? In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are at the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa. Museveni's involvement in the conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, and Somalia has earned him substantial amounts of military and development assistance, as well as near-total impunity. It has also short-circuited the power the people of this region might otherwise have over their destiny. Epstein set out for Uganda more than 20 years ago to work as a public health consultant on an AIDS project. Since then, the roughly $20 billion worth of foreign aid poured into the country by donors has done little to improve the well-being of the Ugandan people, whose rates of illiteracy, mortality, and poverty surpass those of many neighboring countries. Money meant to pay for health care, education, and other public services has instead been used by Museveni to shore up his power through patronage, brutality, and terror. Another Fine Mess is a devastating indictment of the West's Africa policy and an authoritative history of the crises that have ravaged Uganda and its neighbors since the end of the Cold War. "A stunning new book of reportage and analysis." --Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

Dieses Buch ist die Erinnerung einer Tochter an die Familie ihrer Mutter und eine Fortsetzung des bahnbrechenden Werks über die Kinder des Holocaust. Durch ihre journalistische Ausbildung zeigt Helen Epstein, wie dokumentarische Recherche Familiengeschichte ans Licht bringt und die historische Kluft der Shoah überbrückt. Es ist sowohl ein persönlicher Bericht als auch eine Familien- und Sozialgeschichte der zentral-europäischen Juden im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frances Epstein hinterlässt ihrer Tochter zwölf eng beschriebene Seiten, die zum Ausgangspunkt einer Reise werden, um die Frauen ihrer Familie zu erkunden. Die porträtierten drei Generationen von Frauen sind Schneiderinnen, die Modesalons führten, die als Zufluchtsorte dienten und Orte, an denen Frauen frei sprechen konnten. Helen Epstein thematisiert die kulturelle Anpassung und beschreibt lebendig das Leben der Juden in Tschechien. Sie ist schonungslos in der Darstellung der Mühsalen einer Verpflanzung und tritt aus der Erzählung heraus, um sich selbst zu reflektieren. Die Erzählung wird als intimes Porträt starker Frauen in schwierigen Zeiten wahrgenommen. Epsteins literarische Pilgerfahrt in ihre Vergangenheit bereichert das Verständnis von Lebenserinnerungen und ist tief menschlich. In ihrem ersten Buch untersucht sie generationsbedingte Traumata.

Memoáry americké novinářky a spisovatelky Helen Epstein odhalují intimní tajemství v kontextu dramatické českožidovské minulosti rodičů a amerických poměrů. Hledání tajemství, které autorka tuší, že se odehrálo v jejím dětství a ovlivnilo ji na celý život. Autobiografie „O čem se nemluví“ je třetím dílem Helen Epstein o mezigeneračním přenosu traumatu, autorka tak navazuje na „Děti Holocaustu“ o životě druhé generace a na „Nalezenou minulost“ o moravských kořenech své matky.