Tales from My Father's Home Kupishok, Lithuania

Résumé du livre

"Every man has a story, his own life story. It starts in his father's home, in the fields and meadows of a man's childhood. This, undoubtedly, is the nucleus; it is well preserved and it blossoms on rare occasions in the conditions which stimulate growth. The development of the story is not continuous as there are breaks and winter slumber, but then reawakens, changes, and presses on. Occasionally, it repeats itself but in other cases sails on to unexpected destinations. This is the way my story moves too. It opens in the small township of Kupishok, which, for me, includes the whole of my Lithuania, the Jewish Lithuania, the Lithuania that is gone forever. Even as I left the country, the stories continued to accompany me. Nevertheless, the story inclination has become even stronger after the great ruin. The experiences that I once consider meaningless and unimportant appear today as significant and noteworthy. The last ones to mention are the Litvaks, the Jews of my country of origin wherever they are. Not many of us have remained alive after the horrible Nazi burning. The people of my generation are slowly disappearing the natural way. Precisely for this reason, I sincerely hope that the Lithuanian Jews and their descendants will find something of the old aura of their devastated homes in this book"--Adapted from back cover.