Objects of Remembrance

Title: Objects of Remembrance
Publication Type: Book
Author: Price, M. E.
Year: 2009
Pages: 224
Publisher: Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS), distributed by CEU Press.
Place of Publication: Budapest
Language: English
ISBN978-963-9776-52-4

Objects of Remembrance is the memoir of Monroe E. Price, founder and Chair of the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at CEU, Director of the Center for Global Communications Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. The book describes the Vienna of Kristallnacht and the Middle America of refugees who lived beyond New York City. Price, born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1938, left when he was seven months old. In a series of reflections, he seeks to recreate the Vienna of his infancy and the socialization of his family, and other Jewish and Viennese immigrants, in the United States. As he traces the particular path of his own life, Price reveals a more universal story of adjustment, and the relationship between a marginal community and the drama of American citizenship. Author of The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, calls Monroe Price's book “An intimate and provocative meditation on Jewish life between the old and the new world.”

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