Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs - Image 1

£70.68

World Scientific Publishing Company Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs

Name: Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs
Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company
Price: 70.27 GBP
Availability: InStock

Legal

Price data last checked 8 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 83 days • 83 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 83 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £70 (83 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £70 - £70

Price levels: 1 different prices over 83 days

Description

Having reached an advanced age and living in full retirement, Peter Ellinger has written his Memoirs. His odyssey commences with his birth in Vienna in 1933, the very year in which Adolf Hitler was democratically voted into power in Germany. Part I of the tome covers Peter's escape from Austria, his years as a refugee in Italy and in France and his primary, secondary and tertiary education in Israel. He describes the pull of the Austrian idols of his home and of the Zionist outlook of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine. He also talks about his growing up and about his attaining religious insights. Notably, when he arrived in Palestine, the country was still governed by Britain under a mandate. He witnessed the foundation of Israel and the struggle of the newly born country during its early years. For a short period, he practiced law in Tel Aviv. He discusses some of the cases handled by him and, turning to the political scene, gives a detailed account of Nasser's rise to power and the Suez Crisis. He also discusses his embarkation on Bible Critique, which has remained one of his hobbies. Part II covers Peter's years as a postgraduate student in Oxford, his move into academia and his first spell in Singapore. It deals with Singapore's development from a Crown colony into a sovereign city-state and describes its initial incorporation into the Federation of Malaysia. During this period, Peter wedded Patricia Goh, a Chinese-educated girl. Their marriage lasted for 43 years, until Patricia's death in Singapore from leukemia. Part III deals with Peter's life as a mendicant professor and with his position as teacher of law in Wellington (New Zealand), Monash (Melbourne) and his return to Singapore. During a period spent in Hamburg, he envisaged the fall of the Brandenburg Wall and the unification of the DDR with Western Germany. On the personal side, it covers his antiques collection hobby. Part IV covers Peter's second spell in Singapore, including his employment by the National University of Singapore and his experience in legal practice. Shortly after Patricia's demise, he went into full retirement. His years as retiree are discussed in the last part of the book. Having covered the past, his eyes focus on the future. Peter realises that his odyssey is not exclusive. Other of his contemporaries — with a Holocaust background — experienced their own winding journey through life. He resolved to recount his experience because in one sense it was unique: he witnessed the foundation of two states: the unification of the two German states and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Further, he adapted to environments initially alien to him. The reader will assess whether these Memoirs are worth telling.

Product Specifications

Brand: World Scientific Publishing Company
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 981127102X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Legal
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Listed Since: 08 December 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

World Scientific Publishing Company Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century: 13 (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 13)

Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity

Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use: Conjunctions, Interjections, Parenthetical Words, Particles, and Prepositions

When Marx Mattered: An Intellectual Odyssey

Digital Science: DSIC 2021: 381 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 381)

EU External Action in International Economic Law: Recent Trends and Developments

Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State: 7 (European Conceptual History, 7)

After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany

Photoactive Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Fundamentals and Applications (Topics in Current Chemistry Collections)

Zwischen Gestern und Morgen: Betrachtungen zur heutigen Kulturlage

Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism

Good Neighbourhood Treaties of Poland: Political, Security and Social Relations

Sollen und Dürfen: Philosophische Grundlagen der ethischen Rechte und Pflichten: 2 (Primary Sources in Phenomenology, 2)

Serve the Power(s), Serve the State: America and Eurasia

Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society: APPLEPIES 2020: 738 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 738)

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management through Design: IC_SWMD 2018: 21 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 21)

Secrets Uncovered

Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?: The Impact of EU Enlargemente for the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders

Consumption Patterns Of The Middle Class In Contemporary China

Enriching Higher Education Students' Learning through Post-work Placement Interventions: 28 (Professional and Practice-based Learning, 28)

Geology of High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal: An introduction

Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa (World Philosophies)

Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity: 5 (Contemporary Austrian Studies)

Sollen und Dürfen: Philosophische Grundlagen der ethischen Rechte und Pflichten: 2 (Primary Sources in Phenomenology)