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Good neighbors, bad times : echoes of my father's German village / Mimi Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Mimi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Germany--Black Forest.
- City and town life.
- Jews--Germany--Black Forest--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- National socialism--Germany--Black Forest.
- National socialism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Judaism.
- Immigrants--United States.
- Immigrants.
- Assimilation (Sociology)--United States.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Black Forest (Germany)--Ethnic relations--20th century.
- Black Forest (Germany).
- Black Forest (Germany)--History, Local.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Small stories of decency are often overlooked in the wake of a larger historic narrative. Yet we need these stories to provide a moral compass, especially in times of political extremism, when fear and hatred strain the bonds of loyalty and neighborly compassion. How, this book asks, do neighbors maintain a modicum of decency in such times? How do we negotiate evil and remain humane when, as in the Nazi years, hate rules?
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Author's Note; Part One: Close to Home; 1. Treadmill to the Past; 2. Anonymous Translation; 3. At the Nachmittag; 4. Kaffeeklatsch; 5. Joie de Vivre; 6. Four Stories of the Torah; 7. The Revolving Room; Part Two: An Ocean Away; 8. Off the Record; 9. A Little Respect, Please; 10. The Good Raincoat; 11. Hedwig, Fritz, and ""Schtumpela""; 12. The Second Generation; Part Three: Back and Forth; 13. Willy from Baltimore; 14. Five Kilometers Away; 15. Katherine of Dorn; 16. Truth Transposed; 17. What Willy's Neighbor Says... ; 18. The Red Album; 19. Where Legend Ends; 20. At My Father's Grave; Part Four: End Points; 21. The Other Miriam; 22. Three Little Girls; 23. Yes or No?; 24. Celebration; Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-21344-6
- 9786611213442
- 0-8032-1767-6
- OCLC:
- 560603029
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