Author

Publication

2002 - Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

94,250 words, Guess

Page Count

377 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC973.91/092
  • DDCB
  • LCCE175.5.L47 A3 2002
and 1 more
  • LCCE175.5.L47A3 2002

Description

"In Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in Women's History, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change with a novelist's skill and a historian's command of context. Lerner's memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began. The child of a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, she was still a teenager when a fascist regime came to power in 1934, and she became involved in the underground resistance movement. The Nazi take-over of Austria cast her into prison, then forced her and her family into exile; she alone was able to leave Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

Series Statement

  • Critical perspectives on the past

Other Editions

  • Fireweed: a political autobiographyTemple University Press2002-01-01

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