I regret that she - as any other victim of the WWII including my family members who were starving in Leningrad - was forced to go through what she went. Her book, Shakespeare's Kitchen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. I only finished this book because my daughter gave it to me, and I wanted to be able to discuss it with her. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered Ruth Kluger. Segal earned her B.A. . Now in paperback, this European bestseller won huge -acclaim from U.S. critics, Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post Book World declared this memoir of a Holocaust girlhood and a life reclaimed "one of the best books of 2001 . "A deeply moving and significant work . If I didn't read other books, this one would probably make me think that the author's mother, not Nazis, was to blame for everything bad that happened to the author. . . Segal taught writing and English at Columbia University, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, the University of Illinois, and The Ohio State University. Her experience, however, didn't teach her that the people are the most valuable things around us. Now in paperback, this European bestseller won huge -acclaim from U.S. critics, Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post Book World declared this memoir of a Holocaust girlhood and a life reclaimed "one of the best books of 2001 . If I didn't read other books, this one would probably make me think that the author's mother, not Nazis, was to blame for everything bad that happened to the author. . Main Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. Lore Segal's writings include the novels Other People's Houses and Her First American. . She has published short stories, articles, and reviews in such periodicals as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, New Republic, and the New York Times Book Review. in English from Bedford College, University of London, in 1948. Segal also wrote fiction for both children and adults. a book of surpassing, and at times brutal, honesty. Lore Segal is a writer, educator, and reviewer. Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, And the Holocaust, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies University of Texas at Dallas David Patterson, Edward J Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy John K Roth. . She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1965-66 and received the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 1986. . She was born in Vienna, Austria, on March 8, 1928. . As one reader said, the author is not likable, and IMO she is rather very unlikable. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, User Review  - Not Available - Book Verdict. "—Publishers Weekly, "A stunning contemplation of human relationships, power and the creation of history. Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. As one reader said, the author is not likable, and IMO she is rather very unlikable. . Segal received grants from the Council of Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. compared by European critics to the work of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. I got it, the author's mom was worse than all Nazis taken together...This book was not a first or a second one I read on the topic of the WWII, Conzlagers (Concentration camps), Nazis, women at war, Holocaust, etc. . This ... Read full review. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series: Authors: Ruth Kluger, Ruth Klüger, Ruth Aliav: Contributor: Lore Segal: Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2001: ISBN: 1558612718, 9781558612716: Length: 216 pages: Subjects: Biography & Autobiography › Historical. I regret that she - as any other victim of the WWII including my family members who were starving in Leningrad - was forced to go through what she went. . "How can I keep my readers from feeling good about the obvious drift of my story away from the gas chambers and the killing fields and towards the postwar period, where prosperity beckons?" "How can I keep my readers from feeling good about the obvious drift of my story away from the gas chambers and the killing fields and towards the postwar period, where prosperity beckons?" Her widely translated memoir has won eight European Literary awards. Segal earned her B.A. Among the many reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged.". in English from Bedford College, University of London, in 1948. . This ... Read full review. Segal also wrote fiction for both children and adults. Ruth Kluger is professor emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. Mark as downloaded . "How can I keep my readers from feeling good about the obvious drift of my story away from the gas chambers and the killing fields and towards the postwar period, where prosperity beckons?" Her book didn't add anything to my knowledge base, and I consider my time spend on this book entirely wasted since I did not find myself interested in author at all, in spite of her efforts to show off her intelligence. She is the author of five books about German literature and the recipient of Austria's National Prize for Literary Criticism. Still Alive is a memoir of the pursuit of selfhood against all odds, a fiercely bittersweet coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must learn never to rely on comforting assumptions, but always to seek her own truth. . She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1965-66 and received the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 1986. Still alive a holocaust girlhood remembered pdf Still alive : a Holocaust girlhood remembered Ruth Kluger foreword by Lore Segal Still Al ive is the eighth named book in the seri e s Pu b l i ca t i onAmazoncom: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Prof. Marion Kaplan .