{"product_id":"osnabrzck-station-to-jerusalem-9780823299102","title":"Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inventive \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eliterary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After the war, Osnabrück counted not a single Jew. Most had been deported and murdered in the camps, others emigrated if they could and if they managed to overcome their own inertia. It is this inertia and failure to escape that Hélène Cixous seeks to account for in \u003ci\u003eOsnabrück Station to Jerusalem.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVicious anti-Semitism hounded all of Osnabrück's Jews long before the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. So why did people wait to leave when the threat was so patent, so in-their-face? Drawn from the stories told to Cixous by her mother, Ève, and grandmother, Rosalie (Rosi), this literary work reimagines fragments of Ève's and Rosi's stories, including the death of Ève's uncle, Onkel André. Piecing together the story of Andreas Jonas from what she was told and from what she envisages, Cixous recounts the tragedy of the one she calls the King Lear of Osnabrück, who followed his daughter to Jerusalem only to be sent away by her and to return to Osnabrück in time to be deported to a death camp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCixous wanders the streets of the city she had heard about all her life in her mother's and grandmother's stories, digs into its archives, meets city officials, all the while wondering if she should have come. These hesitations and reflections in the present, often voiced in dialogues staged with her own son or daughter, are woven with scenes from her childhood in Algeria and the half-remembered, half-invented stories of the Jonas family, making \u003ci\u003eOsnabrück Station to Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e one of the author's most intensely engaging books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis work received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation. French Voices is a program created and funded by the French Embassy in the United States and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHélène Cixous (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of the first Women's Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty \"fictions,\" as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. She has long been a collaborator with Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du Soleil and a number of her plays have been published. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eComing to Writing and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Cixous.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEva Hoffman (Foreword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEva Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e is author of the best-selling memoir\u003ci\u003e Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language. \u003c\/i\u003eHer other books include \u003ci\u003eShtetl, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfter Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e, and two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Illuminations.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeggy Kamuf (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeggy Kamuf\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include \u003ci\u003eBook of Addresses\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the René Wellek Prize, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Remains of the Death Penalty\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485222965522,"sku":"9780823299102","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c64cdcd8-28f6-45e9-b304-b89be893989e.jpg?v=1730400211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/osnabrzck-station-to-jerusalem-9780823299102","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}