{"product_id":"9781925410853","title":"The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? \u003c\/i\u003eIn writing \u003ci\u003eThe Fiftieth Gate\u003c\/i\u003e,  Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and  life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents’ memories and,  inside the darkness, finds light. In his evocative prose, Baker takes us  to this place of horror, and then brings us back to reflect on these  events and remember: ‘Never again’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcross the silence of fifty years, Baker and his family travel from  Poland and Germany to Jerusalem and Melbourne, as the author struggles  to uncover the mystery of his parents’ survival: his father Yossl was  imprisoned in concentration camps and his mother Genia was forced into  hiding after the Jews of her village were murdered.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwenty years on from its first publication, \u003ci\u003eThe Fiftieth Gate\u003c\/i\u003e  remains an extraordinary book. It has become a classic and has now sold  over 70,000 copies. In Baker's new introduction, he recalls his  motivations for writing this important memoir, and highlights how the  testimonial culture in Holocaust studies has spread to awareness of  other genocides and our responsibility (and failure) to prevent them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs well as \u003ci\u003eThe Fiftieth Gate, A Journey Through Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, a seminal book on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, \u003cb\u003eMark Raphael Baker\u003c\/b\u003e has written a compelling memoir, \u003ci\u003eThirty Days, A Journey to the End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e,  about the recent death of his wife. He is Director of the Australian  Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Associate Professor of Holocaust and  Genocide Studies in the School at Monash University, Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Heartrending and beautiful...This simply written, subtly complex narrative is instantly recognisable as a masterpiece, and the reader is rewarded by the light it sheds.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Age \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Combining precise historical research and poetic eloquence, Mark Baker’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fiftieth Gate\u003c\/i\u003e remains the gold standard of second generation Holocaust memoirs on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary edition.’ \u003cb\u003eChristopher R. Browning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Baker does with memory, what Rembrandt does with light. He uses it to model, to imagine, to illuminate, to astonish.’ \u003cb\u003ePhilip Adams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141253972208,"sku":"9781925410853","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925410853_p0.jpg?v=1763634209","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925410853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}