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y separately published work icon East of Time single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 East of Time
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'East of Time narrates his prewar childhood and adolescence in Lodz, through to the liquidation of the ghetto and his family's deportation to Auschwitz'. (Source : Richard Freadman, This Crazy Thing a Life : Australian Jewish Autobiography (2007))

Notes

  • Dedication: For Marcia, with love.
  • Prequel to Sunrise West.

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y separately published work icon Sunrise West Jacob G. Rosenberg , Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2007 Z1418020 2007 single work autobiography 'Sunrise West recounts his incarceration in Auschwitz, Wolfsburg and Ebensee, his liberation, followed by three and a half years as a displaced person in Italy, and the early period of his life in Australia'. (Source : Richard Freadman This Crazy Thing a Life : Australian Jewish Autobiography (2007))
From : East of Time Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2009 extract autobiography (East of Time)
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 699-702)
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Threads Marcia Jacobs , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 219-241)
The Circle of His Art : Jacob Rosenberg's Four Great Prose Works in English Alex Miller , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 151-165)
'Gentleness My Strong Enforcement' : The Ethos of Gentleness in 'East of Time' and 'Sunrise West' Richard Freadman , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 113-137)
A Mysterious Time Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 97-111)
'Like a World in Itself' : The Wonder of 'East of Time' Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 49-69)
Olympiad of Hope Peter Steele , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 274 2005; (p. 25)
— Review of East of Time Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2005 single work autobiography
End of Innocence Sally Blakeney , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 September vol. 123 no. 6487 2005; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Once Morris Gleitzman , 2005 single work children's fiction ; East of Time Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2005 single work autobiography ; The Book Thief Markus Zusak , 2005 single work novel
Agnostic's Kaddish Creates Literary Masterpiece Richard Freadman , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish news , 2 September vol. 71 no. 50 2005; (p. 20)
— Review of East of Time Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2005 single work autobiography
The Ghetto Rises: Beauty Among the Beasts Michael McGirr , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 October 2005; (p. 12)
— Review of East of Time Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2005 single work autobiography
Nonfiction Jan Borrie , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 80-81)
— Review of East of Time Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2005 single work autobiography
Remembering Life Before the Storm Deborah Stone , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 5 August vol. 71 no. 46 2005; (p. 20)
The Blot on Mankind Angela Bennie , 2007 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-8 April 2007; (p. 30-31) The Age , 14 April 2007; (p. 26-27)

Angela Bennie reports on an encounter between Jacob Rosenberg (author of East of Time) and Peter Lantos (author of Parallel Lines). Both men were held in concentration camps during World War II, Rosenberg at Auschwitz and Lantos at Bergen-Belsen. Lantos eventually migrated to the UK and became professor neuroscience at King's College, London; Rosenberg made his way to Australia and established a tailoring business in Melbourne's central business district. The two men brought differing perspectives to the writing of their Holocaust accounts.
Once Tortured, Forever Tortured: Testimony and Autobiography in Jacob Rosenberg's 'East of Time' and 'Sunrise West' Richard Freadman , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Partial Answers : Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas , vol. 7 no. 2 2009; (p. 279-298) 'It is often assumed that Testimony and Autobiography are clearly distinct genres. On this view Testimony conveys eye-witness reports of particular tragic events, whether momentary or of longer duration (e.g. years in a concentration camp), while Autobiography is seen as more chronologically extended and more introspective. However, since many Holocaust narratives incorporate 'testimony' into a larger life narrative which, among other things, traces the psychological effects of trauma in later years, it seems reasonable to see Testimony, at least in some instances, as an aspect of Autobiography. As always, such generic markers should be seen as heuristic indicators, not as inflexible taxonomic categories. Most serious writers agentially deploy, develop and combine generic possibilities. One such writer is Jacob G. Rosenberg, Australia's finest Jewish autobiographer and a world class figure in Holocaust writing. Born into a Bundist family in Lodz in 1922, Rosenberg is the author of two award-winning autobiographical volumes, East of Time (2005) and Sunrise West (2007), that narrate his life in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Ebensee, and Australia. His is a hybrid art fusing scriptural and folk materials with influences from Yiddish literature and Western modernity. His signature technique -- the imaginatively charged vignette -- is equally attuned to the description of horror and of redemptive, sometimes visionary, enchantment. Though the psychological dimension of his writing owes more to Yiddish sources than to Freudian modernity, his tracing of trauma's aftermath down the years constitutes full-blown autobiographical writing which powerfully incorporates and extends the act of testimony. Rosenberg writes: 'Once you have been tortured, you are forever tortured.''
Landscapes of Disenchantment and Hope Alex Skovron , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 1-23)
'Life, People, Love and Hate' : Meeting Jacob Rosenberg Morag Fraser , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 25-48)
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Subjects:
  • Lodz,
    c
    Poland,
    c
    Eastern Europe, Europe,
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau, Occupied Poland (1939-1945),
    c
    Poland,
    c
    Eastern Europe, Europe,
  • 1930s
  • 1940-1944
Settings:
  • c
    Poland,
    c
    Eastern Europe, Europe,
  • Lodz,
    c
    Poland,
    c
    Eastern Europe, Europe,
  • ca. 1930-1944
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