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Mimi Schwartz - Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father´s German Village - 9780803226401 - V9780803226401
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father´s German Village

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Description for Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father´s German Village Paperback. 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.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803226401
SKU
V9780803226401
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About Mimi Schwartz
Mimi Schwartz is a professor emerita of writing at Richard Stockton College. She is the author of  Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, available in a Bison Books edition, and Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (co-authored with Sondra Perl). Her essays have been widely anthologized and six of them have been Notables in Best American Essays.

Reviews for Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father´s German Village
“A thoughtful, elegantly written memoir. . . . Through the author’s voice, we hear the voices of a dwindling group of survivors—Jewish and Christian—whose perspective and remembering are as complex as they are insightful. This is a Holocaust memoir that is as much about then, as it is about now. Good Neighbors, Bad Times will make you smile, but it ... Read more

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