What Others Are Saying about THE GROUND UNDER MY FEET

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 remarkable prose-poem to life

Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College & the Graduate Center CUNY, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, vols.I & II, III forthcoming