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Alison B. Curry

Alison B. Curry is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation examines the ritual, spatial, and functional uses of Jewish cemeteries in Poland during the interwar period and the Holocaust. Curry currently holds the Association for Jewish Studies’ Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2024-2025. Her research has been generously supported by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the American Academy for Jewish Research.

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Review of Once There Was Warsaw by Ber Kutsher, transl. Gerald Marcus

Alison B. Curry

Kutsher’s memoir is not just a memoir of his life but a memoir of a city long gone. Written originally in Yiddish in 1955 after Kutsher survived the Holocaust and left Poland, it reads more like a yizkor book than a personal memoir.

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