Rue Ordener, Rue Labat

by Sarah Kofman

Book Overview

Rue Ordener, Rue Labat is a moving memoir by the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman. It opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 when the author's father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue Ordener in Paris, then transported to Auschwitz--"the place," writes Kofman, "where no eternal rest would or could ever be granted." It ends in the mid-1950s, when Kofman enrolled at the Sorbonne...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803277806
• ISBN13: 9780803277809
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.1"