Lastly, another one from the author herself.
SWINGJUDEN
By Rochelle Wisoff - Fields
In 1969 my mother packed me off to my aunt and uncle’s dairy farm in Wisconsin.
“But Mom, Uncle Otto’s weird. That eyepatch and those scars—ick.”
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One night he took my Jefferson Airplane record from the stereo and replaced it with his own 45.
“You tink das ist protest music? ‘It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,’” He sang. “The SS ransacked our nightclub, but I danced all the way to Buchenwald.”
Uncle Otto taught me more than the jitterbug that summer.
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At his funeral last year I saluted my favorite uncle with, “Swing Heil!”
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is a woman of Jewish descent—the granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants—whose close personal connection to Jewish history is a recurring theme throughout much of her writing. Her novels Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes and As One Must, One Can were born of her desire to share the darker side of these beloved tales; the history that can be difficult to view, much less embrace.
Her upcoming companion coffee table book for the series, A STONE FOR THE JOURNEY (Argus, Spring 2017), features her original artwork in pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor.
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