In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova Berlin Developing the argument through memoir

Developing the argument through memoir

moreIt is a historical episode in the time of the Armada and the dislocation of Sephardic Jews from Spain to an eventual location in New York’s lower east side

the pitfalls of an object easily overlooked in everyday life appear

by isolating and categorizing titles

Aira’s On Contemporary Art exemplifies what the ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing—exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects

In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova Berlin Developing the argument through memoirWith the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, moreand heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers