Isbn: 9780803226401 - good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's german village (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers--and her father's boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her father, before Hitler, everyone got along? It was only many years later, when she heard a remarkable story of the Torah from that very village being rescued by Christians on Kristallnacht, that Schwartz began to sense what these stories might really mean. Thus began a twelve-year quest covering three continents as Schwartz sought answers in the historical records and among those who remembered that time. Welcomed into the homes of both the Jews who had fled the village fifty years earlier and the Christians who had remained, Schwartz heard countless stories about life in one small village before, during, and after Nazi times. Sometimes stories overlapped, sometimes one memory challenged another, but always they seemed to muddy the waters of easy judgment. How, this book asks, do neighbors maintain a modicum of decency in such times of political extremism when fear and hatred strain the bonds of loyalty and neighborly compassion? How do we negotiate evil and remain humane when, as in the Nazi years, hate rules. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers--and her father's boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her father, before Hitler, everyone got along? It was only many years later, when she heard a remarkable story of the Torah from that very village being rescued by Christians on Kristallnacht, that Schwartz began to sense what these stories might really mean. Thus began a twelve-year quest covering three continents as Schwartz sought answers in the historical records and among those who remembered that time. Welcomed into the homes of both the Jews who had fled the village fifty years earlier and the Christians who had remained, Schwartz heard countless stories about life in one small village before, during, and after Nazi times. Sometimes stories overlapped, sometimes one memory challenged another, but always they seemed to muddy the waters of easy judgment. How, this book asks, do neighbors maintain a modicum of decency in such times of political extremism when fear and hatred strain the bonds of loyalty and neighborly compassion? How do we negotiate evil and remain humane when, as in the Nazi years, hate rules. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 263 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. A memoir of recovering the history of a German village where Jews' and Christians' claims of congeniality were often proved true. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BM; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334. . 2009. Paperback. . . . .…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. A memoir of recovering the history of a German village where Jews' and Christians' claims of congeniality were often proved true. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BM; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.