Alice's book : how the Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook / Karina Urbach ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
Publication details: London, UK : MacLehose Press, 2022.Description: 413 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cmISBN:- 1529416302
- 9781529416305
- 1529416310
- 9781529416312
- Das Buch Alice : wie die Nazis das Kochbuch meiner Großmutter raubten. English
- Urbach, Alice
- Averbach family
- Urbach, Alice. So kocht man in Wien!
- Averbach family
- Jewish cooking
- Cooking, Austrian -- Viennese style -- History
- Jews -- England -- History -- 20th century
- Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Cooks -- Austria -- Biography
- Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography
- Aryanization -- Austria
- Aryanization
- Cooks
- Jews
- Austria
- Austria -- Vienna
- 940.5318132092 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 940.531 URB | Available | 064001 |
First published as Das Buch Alice : wie die Nazis das Kochbuch meiner Großmutter raubten by Propylaen/Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin, in 2020.
Includes notes and index of people.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-408)
What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. 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.