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My Sister Meda: A Memoir of Old Singapore
My Sister Meda: A Memoir of Old Singapore
My Sister Meda: A Memoir of Old Singapore
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MY SISTER MEDA, A MEMOIR OF OLD SINGAPORE is based on direct experiences. It is a visual, engaging, and memorable story focusing on family, human relations, and love in a once British colony. It brings to light a Singapore that few in today’s world know and the phenomenal harmony that existed between the country’s diverse, multicultural population under the umbrella of colonial rule. The author depicts the history of an enclave of Sephardic Jews that arrived and settled on the island, calling their community the Mahalla which includes her family. She then shows a darker side of Singapore – the Japanese occupation of the island during WW2, and in particular, her family’s internment at Sime Road Camp. But it is her sister Meda who changes their lives and ultimately provides a way for the family’s exodus from the East to the West. The memoir presents a rich mosaic that combines a historical and cultural portrait with an interesting and curious family saga that is at once most touching, educational, and entertaining.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLulu.com
Release dateApr 19, 2023
ISBN9781312672871
My Sister Meda: A Memoir of Old Singapore
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Diana Saltoon

Diana Saltoon has traveled extensively, studied yoga, and in the 1970s developed a program that dealt with modern stress. Her interest in Zen led to a study of Chado, The Way of Tea, as a Zen art and received a certificate of Chamei from the Urasenke School in Kyoto, Japan. Diana became a teacher at the Portland Wakai Tea Association in Oregon before moving with her husband, Robert Briggs, to New York in 2011. They returned to Portland, Oregon, in 2014.A member of Zen communities in Oregon and New York, Diana continues to give presentations, classes, and workshops on the Zen Art of Tea. She is the author of Tea and Ceremony: Experiencing Tranquility (2004), The Common Book of Consciousness (1990), and Four Hands: Green Gulch Poems (1987).

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