Eva Hoffman

Eva Wydra Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born as Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Kraków, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in Ukraine. When she was an adolescent, her family immigrated to Canada in 1959 and her named changed to Eva, and upon graduating from high school she received a scholarship and studied at Rice University, Texas (English literature), the Yale School of Music, and Harvard University, where she received a Ph.D. in literature. In 2008, she was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Warwick. She now lives in London. [cite episode
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Works

* "Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language" (1989)
*"Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe" (1993)
*"Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews" (1997)
*"After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust" (2004).

References

External links

* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Hoffman/hoffman-con0.html Conversation with Eva Hoffman]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4176778,00.html Hoffman's Tale]