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A Life of Learning
2009
Overview
My life has been marked by breaks and discontinuities—abrupt fissures; destruction, loss, and new beginnings. I am a survivor of terror and persecution; I have changed cultures and languages, nationality and class. I’m an outsider as a woman, a Jew, an immigrant, and a radical. I have also been a successful insider, an institution-builder and a respected member of my profession. My various transformations have been driven by necessity, imposed by outside events, yet they have been counter-balanced by certain lifelong continuities: my work as a creative writer, my pervasive preoccupation with historical events and the shaping of history,
