Marta's Notebooks

Talila Kosh Wollner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

450 Seiten

2025
Cherry Orchard Books (Verlag)
979-8-88719-598-8 (ISBN)

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Decades after that war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward suffering from deep depression, Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor, wrote her memoir. Comprising a an intimate and historical testimony, a literary/fictive biography, and an auto-fiction novella,Marta's Notebooksreflects on the profound impact of trauma and the depth of a mother's relationship with her daughter.

Marta dreamed of an extraordinary life: she wanted to conquer the world, she wanted to write. But the Second World War and Holocaust destroyed everything. Marta's Notebooks tells the story of the one thing Marta wrote, decades after the war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and suffering from deep depression. A close relationship developed between Marta and her psychiatrist, leading her to write her story: her poignant memoir, an intimate and historical document, is a testimony to a woman’s life and a place that was destroyed.

Marta’s Notebooks brings together three components: an authentic memoir written by Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor; a literary, fictive biography based on this diary; and an auto-fiction novella, the confession of her daughter reflecting on the profound impact of her mother’s trauma on her own life. Providing a unique approach to telling a survival story, Marta's Notebooks is a testament to the complex wounds trauma leaves behind.

Talila Kosh Wollner, a retired lecturer in Hebrew Literature at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel, has published several academic books and articles dedicated to Israeli literature with a focus on second generation Holocaust literature, including Mnemosyne’s Voice (2008; in Hebrew), which is based on her doctoral dissertation and offers a critical feminist reading of this corpus. Recently, she has been writing literary prose, mainly short stories. Marta’s Notebooks, originally published in Hebrew in 2021, is her first novel. She currently resides in Ra’anana, Israel, where she also teaches yoga and Tai-Qhi-Quan.

Note to Reader

Part One: Marta

Winter

Spring

Summer

End of Summer

Part Two: The Notebooks

Šurany, Family, Childhood

Student

Persecuted

Deportation

Forced Labor

Return

Summer ’45

Part Three: Dr. Neuman

Part Four: Naomi

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2024
Übersetzer	Mirjam Meerschwam Hadar
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
ISBN-13	979-8-88719-598-8 / 9798887195988
Zustand	Neuware