Where Memory Leads av Saul Friedlander

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<b>In this sequel to the classic work of Holocaust literature <i>When Memory Comes</i>, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian returns to memoir to recount this tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents.</b><br> <br> Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with <i>Where Memory Leads: My Life</i>, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. After abandoning his youthful conversion to Catholicism, he rediscovers his Jewish roots as a teenager and builds a new life in Israeli politics.<br><br>Friedländer’s initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. He struggles to process the ubiquitous effects of European anti-Semitism while searching for a more measured approach to the Zionism that surrounds him. Friedländer goes on to spend his adulthood shuttling between Israel, Europe, and the U