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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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