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100 1 Buruma, Ian,|eauthor,|enarrator.
245 10 Their promised land :|bmy grandparents in love and war
|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cIan Buruma.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bBlackstone Publishing,|c2016.
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520 A family history of surpassing beauty and power, Their
Promised Land is Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents'
enduring love through the terror and separation of two
world wars. During the almost six years England was at war
with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian
Buruma's grandparents, were, like so many others,
thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse
was to write letters back and forth. And write they did,
often every day. In a way they were just picking up where
they left off in 1918, at the end of the war that swept
Bernard away to some of Europe's bloodiest battlefields.
The thousands of letters between them were part of an
inheritance that ultimately came into the hands of their
grandson, Ian Buruma. Now, in a labor of love that is also
a powerful act of artistic creation, Ian Buruma has woven
his own voice in with theirs to provide the context and
counterpoint necessary to bring to life their remarkable
marriage, a class, and an age. Winifred and Bernard
inherited the high European cultural ideals and attitudes
that came of being born into prosperous German-Jewish
émigré families. To young Ian, who would visit from
Holland every Christmas, they seemed the very essence of
England, their spacious Berkshire estate the model of
genteel English country life at its most pleasant and
refined. It wasn't until years later that he discovered
how much more there was to the story. At its heart, Their
Promised Land is the story of cultural assimilation. The
Schlesingers were very British in the way their relatives
in Germany were very German, until Hitler destroyed that
option. The problems of being Jewish and facing anti-
Semitism even in the country they loved were met with a
kind of stoic discretion. But they showed solidarity when
it mattered most. As the shadows of war lengthened again,
the Schlesingers mounted a remarkable effort, which Ian
Buruma describes movingly, to rescue twelve Jewish
children from the Nazis and see to their upkeep in
England. Many are the books that do bad marriages justice;
precious few take readers inside a good marriage. In Their
Promised Land, Buruma has done just that, introducing us
to a couple whose love was sustaining through the darkest
hours of the century.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Schlesinger, Bernard,|d1896-1984.
600 10 Schlesinger, Winifred,|d1897-1986.
650 0 Jews, German|zEngland.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945.
700 1 Buruma, Ian.
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