Louise Steinman is the author of the award-winning memoir The Souvenir- A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War and The Knowing Body- The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance. For the past two decades, she has curated the ALOUD literary and performance series for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. She also codirects the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern California.
“Steinman’s elegiac book is a powerful reminder of how ideologies
can become ‘crooked mirror[s]’ that distort reality and destroy
lives, cultures and nations.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Lyrical yet magesterial...heartfelt, poignant, redemptive, and
brave.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“Readers can be grateful to Ms. Steinman for bearing witness to
those seeds of understanding being planted in lands where so much
blood flowed.” —The Wall Street Journal
“[Steinman] achieves something close to peace with those
struggling intensely to understand and rectify Poland’s Jewish
past.” —Foreign Affairs
“Louise Steinman's story is heroic in all the old senses of the
word: a journey of a literal sort; a journey into the terrible
past; and a journey into her own soul. Unblinking, scrupulous and
enduring.” —Alexandra Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the
Dogs Tonight
“An event like the Holocaust not only takes a toll of dead and
traumatizes the survivors. It leaves its mark on later generations
as well—the children and grandchildren of the families of victims,
perpetrators, and bystanders. This is the territory Louise Steinman
explores, with great feeling and with hope, in The Crooked
Mirror.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars
“Louise Steinman has written the most extraordinary travel book I
have ever read—about a journey to nightmare, through unmarked mass
graveyards and dark haunted Polish and Ukrainian streets. The
miracle is that shattering light breaks repeatedly into this
otherwise dark journey. Jews—religious and secular—will have many
reasons to read this book. As a Christian, I urge other
Christians to read every page of The Crooked Mirror, to face evil
again, and to better understand redemption.” —Richard
Rodriguez, author of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
“The Crooked Mirror is both provocative and ultimately redemptive,
a book that will appeal to a wide audience of readers who care
about history, genealogy, and the possibility of peace between
estranged peoples.” —Jonathan Kirsch, author of The Short, Strange
Life of Herschel Grynszpan
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