1-892123-37-1
250 pp
$26.95 HC
6 ¼ x 9 1/8

Mindy Weisel, Editor
Daughters Of Absence
Transforming A Legacy of Loss

Creative daughters transform their parents' Holocaust darkness into a celebration of life

• Hadassah Lieberman and all the contributors are well-known and respected artists and writers.
• Released in time for Holocaust Day of Remembrance
• Follows the release of Mindy Weisel's Touching Quiet

"As daughters of Holocaust survivors, we were buds growing from nearly dead branches," writes artist Mindy Weisel in Daughters of Absence, "But we are the daughters of the future. We turned to the artistic and the creative expressions of life's beauty in celebrating their survival." In this moving tribute, a distinguished group of creative women collaborate to reveal what it was like to grow up in the shadow of their parents' Holocaust ordeal and how they transformed that legacy into the beauty of their films, art, photographs, poems, stories, and lives. So much has been written about the horrors -- this book is a moving tribute to the human spirit.

Contributors include:
Lily Brett, Australian author and poet * Helen Epstein, author, Where She Came From: My Mother's History and Children of the Holocaust * Deb Filler, Canadian actress and entertainer * Sylvia Goldberg, journalist and editor * Aviva Kempner, filmmaker, The Partisans of Vilna and Life and Times of Hank Greenberg * Patty Kopec, pianist and master musician at The Julliard School * Hadassah Lieberman, writer * Vera Loeffler, photographer * Kim Masters, journalist * Miriam Morsel Nathan, poet * Nava Semel, author and playwright, Becoming Gershona and Flying Lesson * Rosie Weisel, Israeli graphic designer

Mindy Weisel's art hangs in museums and institutions around the world. She is an adjunct professor of painting at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. and lives in Washington, D.C. Mindy is also the author of Touching Quiet: Reflections in Solitude.

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