Judy Batalion
Autor de The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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Obras de Judy Batalion
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (2020) 527 copias
The Light of Days Young Readers’ Edition: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (2020) 56 copias
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- Batalion, Judith
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- biographer
historian
journalist
academic - Biografía breve
- Judy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between. She has written for the New York Times, Vogue, the Washington Post and many other publications. Prior to her writing career, she was an academic and is fluent in both Yiddish and Hebrew. Born and raised in Montreal, she now lives in New York with her husband and children.
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- #39,816
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- 4.0
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The stories of these women are absolutely incredible. These women were able to accomplish so much in their resistance. The bravery and strength they had is immense, and their stories deserve to be told.
I just don't think Judy Batalion told these stories in the way they deserved. The narration of their stories jumped back-and-forth between different people, making it even more difficult to tell who was being talked about due to their many different aliases. It also repeated some of the information so many times, like the specific ways in which they disguised themselves, that it felt as if the focus was less on these women and what they accomplished and more on the general lives of Jews in Europe at that time.
These women's thoughts were also mentioned throughout the book, with no real indicator of where Batalion got these thoughts from. Because of this, combined with the slightly monotonous audiobook reading, there were times it felt more like a fictionalized retelling of what these women had done, almost to distance the author and reader from the actual events that occurred.… (más)