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ALICES BOOK - KARINA URBACH TASCHENBUCH

"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour    "Unputdownable . . . Urbach has
also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson    "In a
remarkable new book  Alice's granddaughter Karina  a noted historian  has traced what happened
to her family but also what happened to the cookbook" Daniel Finkelstein    "This fascinating
book  by Alice's granddaughter Karina Urbach  shines a spotlight on this lesser-known aspect of
Nazi looting" The Times    "A gripping piece of 20th-century family history but also something
much more original: a rare insight into the 'Aryanisation' of Jewish-authored books during the
Nazi regime" Financial Times    What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn?  
Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna  but in 1938 she was forced to flee to
England  like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau  and her older son 
having emigrated to the United States  became an intelligence officer in the struggle against
the Nazis.  Returning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s  she discovers that her
bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else's name. Now  eighty years later  the
historian Karina Urbach - Alice's granddaughter - sets out to uncover the truth behind the
stolen cookbook  and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime  of a woman who
with her unwavering passion for cooking  survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to
begin a new life in America.   Impeccably researched and incredibly moving  Alice's Book sheds
light on an untold chapter in the history of Nazi crimes against Jewish authors.    "As this
engaging memoir makes clear  the theft of the cookbook remained for Alice's entire life the
symbol of everything that had been taken from her" TLS    Translated from the German by Jamie
Bulloch

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