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what did it mean to be a Jewish child in Italy at the beginning of thecentury? Carla Pekelis asks herself as she sifts through her early memoriesand answers As a matter of fact nothing absolutely nothing. But shortlyas fascism began its march through her homeland and racial laws slowlyconstricted her world Carla would learn that being a Jew in Italy might indeedhave a profound meaning and dire consequences. Pekeliss recollections piecedtogether in My Version of the Facts form an absorbing delicately nuancedportrait of a life transformed and a world transfigured by the relentlesscurrents of twentiethcentury history. Pekelis recalls her childhood in ahousehold more middleclass than Jewishher grandmothers mysteriousobservances her favorite tutors and first lovedisturbed only subtly by thewar that ended with the fall of the wicked Hapsburgs the liberation of Trentoand Trieste the marching of childrenCarla among themthrough the streets ofSoriano al Cimino waving flags and singing patriotic songs. As the thrust ofthese events and the dangers and implications of Fascism became less subtlePekeliss story becomes one of awakening of flightfirst to Florence then asa mother escaping with her children to Paris to Lisbon before Nazismsadvance and finally to New Yorkand of growing consciousness and courage asthe challenges of sustaining herself and her family intensify and multiply. MyVersion of the Facts comes full circle as Pekelis after years as a widow andan exile by now an expert in reversals and revivals returns to Italy insearch of a clearer sense of what happened to her and to her Italy. «
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