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Jona Oberski

Autor(a) de A Childhood

5+ Works 373 Membros 12 Reviews

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: J. Oberski, Oberski Jona

Obras de Jona Oberski

A Childhood (1978) 344 cópias
De ongenode gast : novelle (1995) 14 cópias
De eigenaar van niemandsland (1997) 12 cópias
Strengel 2 cópias
Jónás a cethal gyomrában (1994) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Verhalen uit Joods Amsterdam (1993) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1938-03-20
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Netherlands
Local de nascimento
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Locais de residência
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ocupação
physicist
scientist
memoirist
Holocaust survivor
Pequena biografia
Jona Oberski was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to Jewish parents who had escaped Nazi Germany the previous year. Then in 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Holland in World War II. Jona, still a toddler, was rounded up with his parents and deported to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. He survived the war, but both his parents died. After the war, Jona was cared for by the family of one of his father's former colleagues, and went to school. At university, he studied physics and became a nuclear and particle research physicist at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Higher Energy Physics in Amsterdam. He is married to Froukje Slijper, a psychoanalyst, and has three sons, two from an earlier marriage. In the 1970s, he participated in a poetry workshop, which inspired him to write about his experiences in the Holocaust. His memoir Kinderjaren (A Childhood) was first published in 1978 in The Netherlands and translated into more than a dozen other languages. It was adapted into a 1993 Italian-French film called Jona che visse nella balena (Jonah Who Lived in the Whale), also released as Look to the Sky. Dr. Oberski has published two more literary works, a novella called De ongenode gast (The Uninvited Visitor, 1995) and De eigenaar van niemandsland (The Proprietor of No Mans Land, 1997), and contributed columns and articles to magazines. In addition, he has published scholarly articles related to his physics research.

Membros

Resenhas

Strengel was widely praised when it appeared in 2022. It is the second book by Jona Oberski, published after an interval of 44 years, since the publication of Kinderjaren in 1978.

His first book was a fictionalized account, although written in selected vignettes, of a small child's memories of deportation and life in a concentration camp. Strengel is a novel about an old man who cannot come to grip with what happened then, whose thoughts and life of past and present are intertwined.

Written in part prose and part letters, I found this book mostly inaccessible and incomprehensible.… (mais)
 
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edwinbcn | Feb 4, 2024 |
Uitgeleend Vero
 
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NeerlandistiekBieb | outras 9 resenhas | Mar 31, 2023 |
The story recounted in Jona Oberski's novella is tragically familiar - during World War II, the life of a young Jewish couple and their 7-year old son is destroyed when they are taken from Amsterdam to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. What sets this book apart from other Holocaust stories is the narrative voice, which is that of the little boy. The simplicity of the narration, brilliantly rendered in Ralph Manheim's translation, fuels the tragic irony of the text. It is very obvious that the boy is describing events which he does not understand at all, whilst we, as readers, share in the adults' horrible secret. The book's brevity adds to its effectiveness - were it any longer, it would have been too harrowing. Oberski is himself a Holocaust survivor which makes this read even more poignant.

This edition forms part of Pushkin Press' "Pushkin Collection"

3.5 *
… (mais)
 
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JosephCamilleri | outras 9 resenhas | Feb 21, 2023 |
Kinderjaren is an autobiographical novel. It is a fictionalized account which closely follows reality, but some details, such as the age of the child, have been changed. This short novel describes the deportation of a Jewish family, the death of the father in a concentration camp, and eventually their liberation during a transport at the end of the war. The work is written from the perspective of the child, almost all in the words of and at the level of comprehension of the child.

Kinderjaren has been translated into many languages. Jona Oberski, the author, recently (September 2022), forty-four years after Kinderjaren, published a new work.… (mais)
 
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edwinbcn | outras 9 resenhas | Dec 21, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
5
Also by
1
Membros
373
Popularidade
#64,664
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Resenhas
12
ISBNs
41
Idiomas
8

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