Beate Gordon
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A vivid and very personal account of one woman's life in Europe, prewar Japan, and the United States. As the daughter of renowned Russian pianist Leo Sirota, Beate Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world of the concert tour, then settled in Japan in the 1930s. During World War II, while her parents remained in Japan under secret service surveillance, Gordon lived alone in the United States, monitoring Tokyo Radio in five languages for the government...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. “The Only Woman in the Room” chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitution, how she almost single-handedly ensured that it would establish the rights of Japanese women, and how, as a fluent speaker of Japanese and the only woman in the room, she assisted the American...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A vivid and very personal account of one woman's life in Europe, prewar Japan, and the United States. As the daughter of renowned Russian pianist Leo Sirota, Beate Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world of the concert tour, then settled in Japan in the 1930s. During World War II, while her parents remained in Japan under secret service surveillance, Gordon lived alone in the United States, monitoring Tokyo Radio in five languages for the government...
