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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
ASIN: B00PQKHVG0
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 235

A child growing up in post-war London, the eldest of three girls, Naomi is the daughter of Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany. Each chapter describes facets of her life—the games she and her sisters play, her friendship with Jeannie, the non-Jewish girl next door, the family’s relations with the world around them, and the fine balance that has to be maintained between the life of orthodox Jews and the non-Jewish environment. In the course of the book we become familiar with Naomi’s somewhat warped imagination and the delicate situation in which she and her family live, on the cusp of two very different cultures.I studied Social Psychology at university and had an epiphany in the library when I read Bowlby’s book, ‘Maternal Deprivation.’Many years later I wrote ‘The Balancing Game: A Child Between Two Worlds, A Society Approaching War,’ in order to give a voice to the many thousands ...
Amazon Rating:
4 stars from 9 ratings