false 212810 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189038669m/212810.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189038669s/212810.jpg The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). And you can watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video: <p align=center>

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]]> 112286 9 3140269 book 19 9 2006 The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million total:749|5:303|4:278|3:122|2:40|1:6| 749 3079 1635 236 6225 4.13 871 280 8358020 335117 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.12 589 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 3 3 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 14:47:36 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 15:25:31 -0700 2007 on her recent visit to France. At the time, she had no idea how interested in this book I would be.

The memoir recounts Daniel Mendelsohn’s search for information about the lives and deaths o...more...]]> 5904359 313885 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 3 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 08 11:50:55 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 09:36:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 29119480 1391775 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 4 3 false Fri Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 03 08:11:59 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 08:27:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 29034715 335159 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 2 3 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 22:36:22 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 15:05:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 270239 19640 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 4 2 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 14 12:35:41 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 14 15:49:23 -0700 2007
The book focuses on one man's search ...more...]]> 3105686 177981 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 15:43:44 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:42:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6636702 122606 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 2 false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 23 00:51:54 -0700 2007 Fri May 30 22:05:19 -0700 2008
Mendelsohn is the self-appointed family historian who, after an entire childhood of listening to his grandfather's stories, decides to find out what hap...more...]]> 1491429 99692 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 3 1 false Mon May 28 08:18:29 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:14:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8826667 595735 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 03:43:38 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 05:29:48 -0800 2007 more...]]> 14570792 867633 212810 0060542993 9780060542993 43 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189038669m/212810.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189038669s/212810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212810.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.08 137 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). And you can watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video: <p align=center>

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]]> 2006 4 2 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 18:05:36 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 14:03:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 7208944 455300 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 4 1 false Wed Oct 03 11:45:19 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 08:46:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 45462365 1008236 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:49:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:49:38 -0800 2009 Daniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning book critic and author of The Elusive Embrace, tells a magnificent, heartbreaking story that toggles between past and present. Masterfully and lovingly narrated, his story extends Holocaust remembrance past the tragedy itself to rescue from oblivion the vanished w...

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A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 4 0 false Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 15:53:03 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 16:17:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 71135612 1012011 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 0 false Sun Sep 13 21:39:10 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:39:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66441088 2602497 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 0 false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 06 11:36:11 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 11:58:02 -0700 2009 It begins with a survey about Daniel Mendelsohn own family story, which is part of the humanity History because it takes place during the Second World War in Eastern Europe, and this surveys leads him to meet old Jews all around the world, and meeting them enlarges the ci...more...]]> 66212939 2595385 212810 0060542993 9780060542993 43 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189038669m/212810.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189038669s/212810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212810.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). And you can watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video: <p align=center>

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Watch Daniel Mendelsohn introduce The Lost: high bandwidth or low bandwidth <p align=left>

]]> 2006 2 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 04 16:27:34 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:32:08 -0700 2009
Did the author think he's above quote marks, or did his editors talk him into this fiasco because it’s the latest "cool" trend? This stupid trend leads to complete reader confusion.

The au...more...]]> 60414659 1140398 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 0 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 09:47:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 09:47:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 56179694 2320578 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 5 0 false Tue Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 15 09:53:28 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:54:00 -0700 2009
The Lost tells the true story of the author's search to discover what happened to his great-uncle's family in WWII. His relatives can say only that Schmiel, his wife Ester and their fou...more...]]> 1756863 110924 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

]]> 2006 3 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 07 13:08:53 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 13:16:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 79969839 810962 112286 0060542977 9780060542979 189 <![CDATA[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568m/112286.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656568s/112286.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112286.The_Lost_A_Search_for_Six_of_Six_Million 4.11 749 The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book).

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