#1: THE LIBERATOR’S DAUGHTER
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#2: THE MAGIC MARBLE TREE:
A WRITER’S JOURNEY
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#3: THE ART OF RESILIENCE:
FROM PAIN TO PROMISE
by Deborah Levine
THE LIBERATOR’S DAUGHTER
As a US military intelligence officer, Dad was assigned to interrogate Nazi prisoners of war. My father’s letters to Estelle expressed the horrors he saw in the death camps, including the discovery of an underground death/work camp at Nordhausen. My mother’s love letters to him kept him sane. Their letters are included in this book. Rising from our Eastern European Jewish immigrant roots and his war experiences, my family left me a legacy of tikkun olam, repairing the world. The originals are archived in the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati where my father was Chief Financial Officer and encouraged me to work for Jewish agencies, create post-Holocaust programs, and speak/coach on cultural diversity.
- Diaspora-Immigrant Photographs
- Soldier’s Letters from World War II
- Holocaust Survivor Diaries
- Post-war Holocaust, Interfaith & Diversity chronicles
- Foreword by The Rev. Dr. John Pawlikowski
THE MAGIC MARBLE TREE
The memoir you’ve been waiting for… stories of wisdom and integrity, of kindness & courage, of creativity & hope. Here are my stories of perseverance through the hardships of war time and the pain of chronic illness. Go beyond merely enduring to championing life and creating beauty out of chaos. These stories transform at the soul level where the will to live resides and inspiration is born.
THE ART OF RESILIENCE
Far from being abstract research on the dynamics of resilience, Deborah Levine has provided us with a life story, and highly relevant biography, an ethnography if you will, of the struggle for resilience lived out, day by day. It is filled with the challenges to resilience from health, work, environments, and relationships. Today we speak of the cost of intersectionality on oneself. The term is extremely relevant here, as Deborah herself is bundled into her white female identity, her Jewish ethnicity, the cultural marks of her places of upbringing, her immigrant status, her health vulnerability, and her religious belongings. Each of these shows up repeatedly both as a liability and an asset in her resilience narrative.