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One Hundred Saturdays
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale. With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where shed grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Neither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays that they would spend in each others company as Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come of age on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which the Italians began governing as an official possession in 1923 and transformed over the next two decades until the Germans seized control and deported the entire Juderia to Auschwitz. Probing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a magical modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary timeand to construct a life after that place has vanished. One Hundred Saturdays is a portrait of one of the last survivors drawn at nearly the last possible moment, as well as an account of a tender and transformative friendship that develops between storyteller and listener as they explore the fundamental mystery of what it means to collect, share, and interpret the deepest truths of a life deeply lived.
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LinesUponAPage
LinesUponAPage
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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A year ago I read One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank, based in his interactions with Stella Levi a 92 yr old Jewish woman who survived her horror in Auschwitz-Birkenau after her community in Rhodes, Greece was sent to the Camps.

This book affected me deeply, & more poignant was visiting Rhodes 2 days after the initial attack on Israel. I felt such deep sadness as I walked through the Juderia.

This is a book to put on your list.
#nonfiction

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jlhammar
jlhammar
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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Michael Frank met 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Stella Levi in 2015. Over the next six years he would come to know this extraordinary woman and the lost world of her youth. Frank is an accomplished storyteller and this book is a gift. Insightful, intimate and very moving. Includes beautiful artwork by Maira Kalman.

See comments for link to the book trailer featuring the amazing Stella.

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jlhammar
jlhammar
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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Very excited to have these ready for pick-up at the library today! Looking forward to Gharib‘s new graphic memoir. I thought her last, I Was Their American Dream, was great. And so excited for some Nina and Ruth! After watching the new Ken Burns documentary this week, The U.S. and the Holocaust (PBS), I am even more eager to start tagged.

#libraryhaul

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Cinfhen
Cinfhen
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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“Beginning in the fall of 1938, I experienced a change I wouldn‘t come to understand until decades later. I lost the right to be human.”
Wow, is my heart breaking 💔This book is incredible and the illustrations are gorgeous.

peaKnit TBR me ASAP. this sounds like a deep wonder of a book just from this somber quote. (edited) 2y
jlhammar I got in line for this from the library after reading about it in the Jewish Book Council e-newsletter. Hope I get it soon! Sounds really good. 2y
Cinfhen I‘m a sucker for Jewish History and this one about the Jewish community of Rhodes is really fascinating @peaknit @jlhammar Im learning so much 2y
BarbaraBB It sounds heartbreaking with illustrations that look like art! 2y
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ReadingisMyPassion
ReadingisMyPassion
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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This book was very interesting. I loved reading about the customs, foods, superstitions, and daily lives of the Jewish community of Rhodes. This is a world that disappeared as a result of the Holocaust. Thankfully, Stella Levi shared her memories of her life as a young girl in Rhodes. So fascinating!

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Rhondareads
Rhondareads
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank
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A ninety year old woman and the author share weekly visits she is in her nineties a survivor of the Holocaust.Stella Levin shares her life story her happy childhood in the Jewish quarter of Rhodes happy dreaming of the future and then she is deported to the Nazi death camps her story of survival is emotional moving and you will cheer for her,

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