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PublisherMcnally Jackson Books
ISBN-101946022330
ISBN-139781946022332
eBay Product ID (ePID)13057271855
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Book TitleOppermanns
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Jewish
Publication Year2022
GenreFiction
AuthorLion Feuchtwanger
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5 in
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Reviews The Oppermanns presents how extinction feels from the inside. The habits that once kept you alive, passed on from generation to generation, no longer work. Everything you thought would prepare you for future success instead narrows your chances of survival. The news from 1933 is still news, if we know how to listen to it., Readers will be struck by how little the language about White supremacy, antisemitism, the swapping of lies for facts, the discrediting of the press, and the embrace of violence over reason has changed. It's hard to imagine a 90-year-old book being more timely., Feuchtwanger chronicles the tsunami of antisemitism that engulfed Germany and its people in the years leading up to WWII in this harrowing novel, originally published in Amsterdam and in Cleugh's translation in 1933, and revised with an introduction by Pulitzer winner Joshua Cohen . . . For readers discovering this clear-eyed account now, it's made all the more devastating by the vast scope of horrors it anticipated., The Nazi cloud deepens on the horizon. But anyone who has read Mein Kampf in one of its early editions will appreciate the witticisms a reading aloud of some of its passages arouses in [the Oppermanns'] circle. When all else fails they can always fall back on 'The Leader's' German prose for entertainment. They refuse to believe that such a fellow can ever come to power over the German folk . . . And so this novel is addressed to the German people, who will not be allowed to read it, urging them to open their eyes. And it is addressed to the world outside bearing the message 'Wake up! The barbarians are upon us!', A long-forgotten masterpiece published in 1933 and recently reissued with a revised translation by the novelist Joshua Cohen . . . The novel is an emotional artifact, a remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and--this may feel most familiar to us today--the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point.
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Dewey Decimal833.91
SynopsisWritten in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend. In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann pothers represent tradition and stability. One pother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public spirited, proud inheritors of the German enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt--if they can--flee, or try to fight. Written in 1933, nearly in real time, The Oppermanns captures the day-to-day vertigo of watching a liberal democracy fall apart. As Joshua Cohen writes in his introduction to this new edition, it is "one of the last masterpieces of German-Jewish culture." Prescient and chilling, it has lost none of its power today.
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- 16. Feb. 2024
Remember the past, do not forget what can happen even in the modern age.
The Oppermanns is a book of the 1930's in the Third Reich and it can be viewed in present day nations around the world as what can happen to a democratic state gone down the wrong road in just a few years. The family in question is confident that nothing can happen to them, they are good solid citizens of Germany. Then laws created by the Third Reich changes everyone's life in matter of months. Restrictions on education, where to shop, jobs available for certain groups not everyone who has a job is to keep it and loss of family business fortunes become reality. At the end of the story, the once proud owner of the furniture business hides in the shadows and runs quickly when in the streets. It makes you think of what can happen to a democracy when the politics of the times changes our culture to the extremes. This book, a novel, became reality in the 1930's and hopefully will not become a reality for our world a century later.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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