Author:Eva Kolinsky
After the Holocaust tells the story of life after liberation from the perspective of Jewish survivors working to rebuild their lives. Since there was no plan for liberation - no structure in place to help survivors settle once they were liberated - these testimonies speak of struggle amid confusion and pain. Ambiguous regulations aimed to repatriate displaced Jews and to confine them to camps were put forth while the classification of German Jews as Germans without entitlement to additional food rations or other support were also put in place. Thus, the normalisation of Jewish life after 1945 amounted to abandonment. And as Germans busied themselves with their own 'catastrophe' of defeat and with the reconstruction of German culture, Jews were left to depend on military and Jewish aid agencies, all pursuing their own, often conflicting, agendas. Jewish culture since the Holocaust incorporates the traumatic memory of the Holocaust as a collective and an individual experience. Yet it also incorporates the memory of how after liberation, Germans remained divided from Jews in their mutual struggle to re-build their lives.
Engrossing... It offers perhaps the best recent one-volume account of North Korea’s history, economics and foreign relations
—— The Economist[This] excellent, comprehensive book explains as much as it is possible to explain the nature of this ‘impossible state’, how it has developed under the Kim dynasty and why it endures as a major thorn in the side of the global community
—— Jonathan Fenby , The TimesThis scrupulously researched account provides an alarming insight into how a long-running nightmare for North Koreans could soon become a geopolitical crisis for the rest of us
—— Stephen Robinson , Sunday TimesHe uses his first-hand and often surreal experiences of dealing with North Korean officialdom to telling effect in the book. But Cha is also a scholar of Korean and Asian affairs, so can take a historical view of the North Korean problem and set it in its wider international context… [An] impressive analysis
—— Richard Cockett , Literary ReviewProvocative, frightening, and never more relevant than today as an untested new leader takes charge of the world’s most unpredictable nuclear power
—— Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs CorrespondentA powerful portrait of one of the world’s most troubled and troublesome countries [and] a fascinating, behind-the-scenes account of recent American foreign policy by a leading official. . . . A must-read combination for anybody interested in Korea, east Asia, or global security more generally
—— Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign AffairsCha demonstrates an intimate familiarity with the regime’s contradictions... The thesis is clear: the world’s most closed-off state needs to open up to survive, but breaking its hermetic seal may well precipitate its demise
—— The New YorkerAn up-close, insightful portrait... The Impossible State is a clearheaded, bold examination of North Korea and its future
—— Washington PostThis is a useful book on how much of the outside world sees North Korea, and what North Korea sees of the outside world
—— Good Book Guide
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