10 Apr 1987
The Paper Bridge
Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.
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A portrait of three generations of wonderfully eccentric Italian American women living in a small town near Boulder.
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