Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski
Creating a Life in the Shadow of History
by Robin Hirsch

"Fascinating slices of Jeweish family hsitory...a charming, sometimes very gunny personal story... What makes [Hirsch's] life story worth a whole book is the way he presents his own share of Jewish disclocation and exile as he strove to scramble free of the shadows cast by his parents' tragedy. The sounds inflicted on the father, brilliantly portrayed in 'Last Dance' as a man of intense and irrational defensiveness, leave their scars on the son."