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The time is ripe for this fine collection of essays: Eva Kollisch's mature self understanding looks back at growing up Jewish in Austria, refusing to forget anti-Semitic teachers and schoolmates and reconciling with those who in that hideous time did as well as they were able. LORE SEGAL, Author of Shakespeare's Kitchen, Other People's Houses, Her First American. This is a wonderful book, beautifully written. It has more history in it than most historians give us. GRACE PALEY, Author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Begin Again: Collected Poems, and numerous other publications. Eva Kollisch has given us a profound and lyrical gift. Born Jewish and outcast, to a privileged creative family in divided Vienna surrounded by Nazis in a world of hate, she has written a book of love, introspection, forgiveness, hope. Filled with the bitter contradictions and beautiful enchantments of our history and ongoing journey, AThe Ground Under My Feet... is a remarkableprose-poem to life. BLANCHE WIESES COOK, John Jay College & the Graduate Center CUNY, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, vols.I & II, III forthcoming. This is a solitary dialogue between a fully realized self and its tentative first incarnations as child, adolescent, and young adult. You will want to honor not only the author who had the wisdom, courage and honesty to reevaluate those who participated in earlier stages of her life, but also those among hercast of characters for whom her voice built an enduring monument. LAURENT STERN, Professor emeritus, Philosophy, Rutgers University, author of Interpretive Reasoning. Eva Kollisch has proven herself as a keen eyewitness of historic events and a superb storyteller.The rare combination of factual objectivity and literary style has become her trademark. GERT NIERS, Author of Frauen schreiben im Exil.