Memoir

A Wider Eye

Item: Alien Roots
Author: Carol Middleton

by Carol Middleton •

May 2007, no. 291

Alien Roots: A German Jewish girlhood: from belonging to exile by Anne Jacobs

Makor Jewish Community Library, $29.95 pb, 411 pp

Memoir

A Wider Eye

by Carol Middleton •

May 2007, no. 291

Alien Roots is a remarkable memoir of pre-war Germany, written in Melbourne by Anne Jacobs (born Annemarie Meyer). Jacobs wrote it in the 1960s, at a time when the Holocaust was rarely mentioned in Australia. Charles Jacobs collated his wife’s memoir for the family, and her children arranged for its publication in late 2006, twenty-four years after her death. The Melbourne-based Makor Jewish Community Library is the publisher.

Carol Middleton

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Carol Middleton is a journalist, arts critic and author, based in Melbourne. Her short story awards include second place in The Age competition 2010. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the anthologies Melbourne Subjective, Ink3 and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is working on a memoir in essays.