In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova sport of “the anguish of Jewish

of “the anguish of Jewish survival”

Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions

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and this 'ghost' of Dad has been walking at my elbow since his death

In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova sport of “the anguish of JewishWith the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like