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Anatomy of a Friendship : A Dual Memoir of Women's Journeys through War to Peace /

Spiegel, Cecile

Anatomy of a Friendship : A Dual Memoir of Women's Journeys through War to Peace / Cecile Spiegel, Diane Tuckman. - 1 online resource (138 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Beginnings / Diane -- 2 Beginnings / Cecile -- 3 Winds of Change / Diane -- 4 Winds of Change / Cecile -- 5 On the Run, with Children / Cecile -- 6 New Realities / Diane -- 7 Coming to America / Cecile -- 8 Never Forget / Cecile -- 9 American Odyssey / Diane and Cecile -- 10 Reflections on Immigration -- 11 Lekh-L’kha / Diane -- 12 Anatomy of a Friendship / Cecile and Diane -- 13 Second Acts -- Epilogue / Diane -- Postscript and Acknowledgments -- Timeline

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Diane Tuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts at their heels. Separately, from Egypt and from Germany, each leaped continents, cultures, and languages as a refugee before finding a new home in the United States. Hiding in plain sight in France, Cecile eluded capture by the Nazis, but lost many dear to her. Diane came of age there, far from the Mediterranean idyll of her childhood in Egypt. They relied on family, faith, and resilience to overcome the otherness felt by displaced peoples. As they dictated their memoirs to one another, Diane and Cecile discovered the anatomy of their friendship in their parallel odysseys and the optimism of 20th-century American womanhood.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781644698372

10.1515/9781644698372 doi


Female friendship--United States.
Jewish women--United States--Biography.
Religious refugees--Egypt--Biography.
Religious refugees--Germany--Biography.
Women immigrants--United States--Biography.
Women refugees--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish.

Autobiography. Egypt. French Resistance. Holocaust. Immigrant. International. Jewish. Memoir. WWII. Women. Women’s Friendship.

E184.36.W64 / S65 2022

305.48/892400922 B