Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture
Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture
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An optimistic and often wryly funny book... a gift to the future, rich with insights about the nature of belonging that are not limited to one community but matter to all of us
I couldn’t put it down
I loved this book so much... Think: The Body Keeps the Score in practice not theory
A moving and resonant lament for the past but also a thought-provoking siren call for the future
Urgent, alive, propulsive. I adored it
Ellis’s book is a useful reminder that Jewish generational trauma is not confined to the descendants of those who survived the Holocaust. In fact, given the ubiquity of refugees in the modern world, Chopping Onions on My Heart’s aching sense of loss has a truly global resonance
A beautiful tale of painful cultural loss, delicious food, rich history; and the bittersweet grief that only the perfect recipe can solve. A truly enlightening book that will leave you hungry yet satisfied
A wonderfully immersive and sensitive meditation on belonging and identity
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