The Legacy of Karen Gershon: Child Survivor to Author and Poet
Naomi Anne Shmuel
Jun 2024 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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In a variety of genres and narrative styles, author and poet Karen Gershon chronicled her European childhood, rescue on the Kindertransport, and life in the aftermath of the Holocaust, with unmatched candor and stunning insight. Based on Gershon’s private archives and letters to her sister, this biography presents a fascinating portrait of a child survivor whose talent for writing crowned her the voice of a whole generation. The major events of Gershon’s life are presented with great perspicacity alongside her development as a writer forced to change languages. Revealing the remarkable story of an English family largely unaware of their Jewish connection, struggling with immigration to Israel, inevitable conflicts and near tragedy. Gershon’s legacy relates to universal human themes: being a refugee, the search for a viable identity and sense of home, as well as the inevitable effects of inherited trauma. This book will be especially interesting to literary or historical scholars, those interested in the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and humanity in general.
About the author
An established British-Israeli author living in Israel, Dr Naomi Anne Shmuel has published 17 books, mostly for children (4 for adults). She has been awarded many literary and academic prizes, including the Levi Eshkol Prime Minister’s prize for literature (2011). Shmuel specializes in anti-bias education and training professionals for working with human diversity. Several of her publications provide practical resources for educators working with heterogenous classrooms in schools and academia. The findings of her research while at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on intergenerational relations and cultural transmission in Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel, were recently published by Springer: Children’s Wellbeing in Immigrant Families (2023). With several articles on the effects of the Holocaust on the second generation and postmemory, Shmuel’s recent research on her mother’s biography - child survivor, author and poet Karen Gershon - has been conducted while she was a research fellow at the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
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