{"product_id":"michael-frank-one-hundred-saturdays-stella-levi-and-the-vanished-world-of-jewish-rhodes","title":"Frank, Michael \u0026 Kalman, Maira - One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes | Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etestament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A momentous historic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eretrieval\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the full details of her past with anyone. That is until she met Michael Frank, and asked him to help her polish a talk she was to give about life in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJuderia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eof Rhodes. Neither of them could know that this was the first of one hundred Saturdays that they would spend in each other's company.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCourageous and sharp, elegant and sly, Stella is a formidable modern Scheherazade whose Saturday instalments give a window into the vibrant, vanished world of the Jews of Rhodes. She unspools for the first time the long threads of her history - from the sun-soaked shores of her childhood, to the fifteen harrowing months she spent in camps scattered throughout Europe, and finally to the United States and New York as one of only 150 Jews from Rhodes to survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing colour illustrations based on Stella's family photographs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne Hundred Saturdays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an unusual and extraordinary memoir. It is a testament to the soul-saving power of relationships; to memories revisited; to resilience. It's not only a vital slice of history that has largely been ignored, but a story of the possibility of an ever-evolving self, even after confronting Hell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Michael Frank \u0026 Maira Kalman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42321455284307,"sku":"9781800815377","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4476\/7571\/files\/6112TROQpgL.jpg?v=1732522214","url":"https:\/\/analogueworld.co.nz\/products\/michael-frank-one-hundred-saturdays-stella-levi-and-the-vanished-world-of-jewish-rhodes","provider":"Analogue World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}