Sidsel Levin and Nina Grünfeld about the book Sidsel Levin, founder and former director at Oslo Jewish Museum. Koritzinsky - Jewish-Norwegian Family History in War and Peace is a new book which mediates knowledge and insight about Norwegian-Jewish life and history. On the one side, Erik Koritzinsky tells the story of his Jewish father's family, their migration, establishment, integration, and partial assimilation from the 1880s onward. On the other side, is his mother's Christian family's rooted history. In this span the life of the family unfolds, problems and the outcome of this history is marked by this. The book is not simply a family chronicle. Koritzinsky simultaneously writes the story of his own upbringing and biography. He paints a picture of a dutiful relation to his mother who raised five children by herself, and the devastating loss of the skilled attending physician father. Both with the war as its dark backdrop. The rich photo material especially from earlier times is uni