Nein, nein, nein! : one man's tale of depression, psychic torment, and a bus tour of the holocaust / Jerry Stahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stahl, Jerry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressed persons.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.

Nazi concentration camps--Germany.

Nazi concentration camps.

Nazi concentration camps--Poland.

Travel.

Stahl, Jerry--Travel--Germany.

Stahl, Jerry.

Stahl, Jerry--Travel--Poland.

Germany.

Poland.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

262 pages : map ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2022]

Summary:

In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling -- out-of-control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States -- would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Kramah! The Kramah!

ch. 2 Roadkill

ch. 3 Stalin's Syringe, Lucky Jews, and a Warsaw Cowboy

ch. 4 Google "Polish Bus Rash"

ch. 5 Empathy Party

ch. 6 Revenge of the Krakow Soup-Cougher

ch. 7 Get Carter

ch. 8 A Brief Digression ("Meet the Jewginal")

ch. 9 Comfortable Shoes

ch. 10 The Maw of the Oven

ch. 11 Unworthy

ch. 12 Trauma Nosh

ch. 13 An Annoying and Self-Righteous Ogre

ch. 14 Restaurant Hangman

ch. 15 Munich

ch. 16 Bear Pit

ch. 17 Jedem das Seine

ch. 18 How Can the Dead Respect the Living?

ch. 19 Walking into Glass

ch. 20 In Nazi Times

ch. 21 Judgmental at Nuremberg

ch. 22 Dachau Blues

ch. 23 With Apologies to Ms. Thorne

ch. 24 Stanley Manly

ch. 25 Stepping on the Faces of the Dead

ch. 26 The Mortal Agony

ch. 27 Compassion Portal.

ISBN:

9781636140254

1636140254

OCLC:

1276848857

Publisher Number:

99991661320