Book Description
First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Oppermanns tells the compelling story of a remarkable German Jewish family confronted by Hitler's rise to power. Compared to works by Voltaire and Zola on its original publication, this prescient novel strives to awaken an often unsuspecting, sometimes politically naive, or else willfully blind world to the consequences of its stance in the face of national events -- in this case, the rising tide of Nazism in 1930s Germany. The past and future meet in the saga of the Oppermanns, for three generations a family commercially well established in Berlin. In assimilated citizens like them, the emancipated Jew in Germany has become a fact. In a Berlin inhabited by troops in brown shirts, however, the Oppermanns have more to fear than an alien discomfort. For along with the swastikas and fascist salutes come discrimination, deceit, betrayal, and a tragedy that history has proved to be as true as this novel's astonishing, profoundly moving tale.
Customer Reviews:
An extraordinary view of German Jews and the rise of the Nazis.......2007-04-08
"The Oppermanns" is an extraordinary, (unfortunately) little-known novel that presents the rise of the Nazis and their first months in power through the experience of a single German Jewish family. The Oppermanns are old, established German Jews: upper-class, politically liberal, respected in progressive society, family members who are titans of industry and leading doctors. The reader views how their world closes in on them and collapses in 1932-1933.
This novel, written as the real events were transpiring, shows the incredulity of German Jews. It shows their enduring belief in the Germany of Goethe as the Germany of Hitler overtakes it. It shows their confidence in the German people to act reasonable even as the masses turn into shrill hatemongers. It shows the reluctance to emigrate, the loss of non-Jewish friends, the April boycott of Jewish shops, the Reichstag fire, the erection of concentration camps, Jewish suicides, etc. Though a bit over-the-top at times, this is an accurate depiction of what happened to the bourgeois Jews of Germany in 1933. I highly recommend it.
Unfortunately, no one has bothered to renew the translation (or typesetting) since it was first done in 1934. The translation is generally very good, but it is definitely not perfect.
-- As was common in the 1930s when discussing foreign politics, there was a tendency to overtranslate. All references to "der Führer" are rendered as "the Leader," and "Mein Kampf" becomes "My Battle." No one would translate either of these terms today. Even the Stahlhelm becomes the "the Steel Helmet Association," which is a literally correct and figuratively incorrect translation.
-- There are also some awkward translations that are off-putting for the knowledgable reader. On nearly every page "völkisch" is translated as "Nationalist," which doesn't quite convey the sense of this uniquely German word. Moreover, since there was a political party known as the "German Nationalists" (the DNVP) who were not Nazis, this is confusing. The translator also makes references to the "Agrarian Party" ("Grossagrarier" in the original). Germany did not have an Agrarian political party, so this is misleading.
-- The translator's German was excellent, but he was clearly less familiar with Anglophone Judaism, and his translated version lacks some of the Yiddishkeyt (Jewishness) of the original. "Maoz Tzur" is presented as "Moaus zur" (i.e. an old German spelling of the Hebrew phrase). Non-Jews are called "goi," not "goy" as is common in English renditions. "Chutzpah" is rendered "chutspe," and "Gojim-Naches" is translated as "goi nonsense." Although the Passover scenes are preserved and translated pretty well, the translator totally edited out a reference to Tish b'Av. Either he didn't know what it was or figured that the reader wouldn't know what it was.
Finally a small correction to other reviews. According to the original Author's Note from the first English edition (Viking Press, 1934), which is reproduced in this edition, Feuchtwanger composed the book in 1933, not 1934. The original copyright was held by Querido Verlag, Amsterdam, 1933.
But, in sum: An excellent, contemporaneous view of German Jewish life in 1933. Highly recommended.
SHOCKING.......2002-08-20
This book is outstanding, beautiful and skocking. It is a creation of a master.
Eerily foretells the events to come in the Nazi era.......2002-01-15
I'm amazed this book doesn't have more glowing reader reviews as it is an absolute standout for many, many reasons, not the least of which is the author's amazing ability to predict the events to come, even before they've fully occurred! Written in 1934, the novel follows the life of one family, the Oppermanns, and the increasing restrictions and hatred they face in their daily lives. Unwilling to believe these rejections and restrictions are anything but "temporary", they are unprepared for the the way "their" community turns against them, but forced to deal with the inevitable consequences. I found this a very believable work, impossible to put down. The introduction by Ruth Gruber (she spoke with the author) helps place this work into a historical perspective.
Well-written, thought-provoking.......2001-09-10
If you've ever wondered how a modern, civilized country begins the slippery slope to cave-man barbaric behavior, this book is a must-read. It's an fast read too -- goes by very quickly, especially towards the end.
Worth a look.......2001-05-01
This novel recounts the experiences of a fictional Jewish family in Berlin in the early 1930s, as the Nazis take over Germany. An omniscient narrator relates the perspectives of both the Jewish Oppermanns and the National Socialists as Jewish stores are boycotted, as people are arrested in the middle of the night, and as some even commit suicide or find themselves in new concentration camps.
This is not Feuchtwanger's most-read work but it's worth reading if you're interested in Feuchtwanger, in modern literature, or even German history. Feuchtwanger accurately and sometimes painfully depicts the very feelings of people astonished at what was happening in their own country, and it's the novel's gripping reality that provides the reader with a fuller, more personal perspective not available in history books.
This edition includes an introduction written by someone who knew Feuchtwanger and also a reprint of the first review of the novel by the New York Times.
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Los Hermanos Oppermann / The Oppermann Brothers (13/20)
Lion Feuchtwanger
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ASIN: 8420666041 |
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"In speaking with many women across the country," explains best-selling author Chris Casson Madden in the introduction to her new book, A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spaces, "I have discovered that as much as we revel in the hard-won victories that have given us new freedoms in pursuing careers and in creating loving relationships, many of us long to find the time in a busy schedule to relax and refresh ourselves, body and spirit. I firmly believe that in order to give back to our relationships, careers, families, and passions, we must pull in for short moments to take care of ourselves, then we can return to the people and places of our lives renewed, refreshed, and ready to continue the drama of our days with all the joys, sorrows, pleasures, and stresses that go with it."
Throughout America Chris has found women from all walks of life who have created for themselves a diversity of personal spaces that provide them the quiet and solitude needed to restore their souls each day. These range from Ali MacGraw's studio in northern New Mexico, its incredible mountain views provide the silence and tranquillity she needs, to designer Sherri Donghia's fabric-filled loft in her Long Island country home, where she can stop, think, relax, and be really honest and creative, to television commentator Chantal Westerman's home, where, amid a collection of altars, crosses, and other religious icons, she has created a peaceful and serene sanctuary.
With over 200 beautiful, full-color photographs and an intimate, engaging text, A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spaces brings to life the special places that women have created as retreats from their busy everyday routines. Within the seven chapters, Celebrating Color, Sacred Places, Working Sanctuaries, Natural Retreats, Serene Spaces, Evoking Memories, and Garden Rooms, innovative and stylish ideas for creating a room of one's own abound. Ella King Torrey, President of the San Francisco Art Institute, explains in Celebrating Color why she gravitates toward her sitting room in her home in San Francisco. "I just relax and think in this room," Ella explains. "This room really feeds my soul and reminds me of life's wonderful possibilities. Every object in this room is connected to a personal place or experience, and so sitting in this room keeps me whole."
Carol Anthony, Chantal Westerman, Sally Quinn, Sister Mary Joaquin, and Ali MacGraw all share a passion for the spirit within, for altars, rituals, and the silent, reverent spaces that are profiled in Sacred Places. Artist Carol Anthony has a "sanctuario," or shrine. It is a thatched-dome adobe structure surrounded by sage brush and aspen trees where she retreats to rekindle the strength she derives from her beloved New Mexico landscape and finds the muse that is necessary for her career as a highly acclaimed artist.
Ali MacGraw shares a need for a space filled with personal belongings with all of the women featured in A Room of Her Own. "There are lots of photographs of my son, my friends, our animals, mementos from my travels, wildflowers, found rocks and bits from my walks in the arroyo. I think that all of us, men and women, need a tiny spot of total privacy, of stillness, to reconnect with our own souls. I know that the ability to regenerate, to get away a bit, enhances not only my mental health but my ability to work and create and, probably, to navigate the complicated relationships that make up the rest of my life."
An avid spokesperson for the outdoor life and one of the country's most notable mountain climbers, Sandy Hill finds that a rainbow-colored Tibetan tent pitched on the lawn of her Connecticut home fulfills her need for a private space. The tent, featured in Working Sanctuaries, was purchased en route to Mount Everest. It is filled with a myriad of pieces that she values emotionally and spiritually. "Everything in this space is necessary to my well-being," she explains.
Designer Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, who, along with her husband, Richard Childs, employs more than three hundred craftspeople, finds her sanctuary in her office, where she can be alone to catch up on correspondence and work. "But my real personal space," explains MacKenzie-Childs, "is a place in consciousness that cannot be taken from or added to. It is truly heaven on earth."
Martha Baker, the mother of four children, a wife, homemaker, career woman, gardener, sports enthusiast, and entertainer, finds that her bedroom offers her a personal space and realizes that it is "as essential to my life as is oxygen." Explains Baker, "I desperately needed sanctuary. My antique-filled bedroom is a place where I feel safe not to think to wander or to tune out. Its a place where I feel I can pull together my thoughts, have a private phone conversation, or just pause in my day."
In Garden Rooms, Pat Mason, Bunny Williams, Jessica McClintock, Antonia Bellanca-Mahoney and Lynn von Kersting find their solace surrounded with lush flowers, beloved plants, and an abundance of light pouring in through windows.
For Antonia Bellanca-Mahoney, her sanctuary is her pavilion, a twenty-five-square-foot room with creamy white walls and a slate floor, as well as a glass-fronted garage door that allows her to keep an eye on the world. "Men have always understood the need for a personal space, their hunting cabin, fishing boat, favorite car, woodworking shop, their little shack by the pond, or even their reclining chair in the den," muses Antonia. "Women have such constant demands between work and family that time and space to recharge is a must to maintain equilibrium."
Chris Madden sought out the places women create as retreats from the demands around them. "The connective thread, she concludes, for all of these personal spaces, is that each one, in dazzlingly different ways, brings its owner the sense of solitude, of the sanctuary they need in their rich and engaged lives. Amid the diversity, there were some elements that I found repeated often such things as glorious fabric and pillows, baskets and bird nests, stones, altars, photographs, and row upon row of hats, boats, books, and shells. Music, scented candles, and views of nature were important elements in these zones of privacy, and help to form the creation of each of these personal spaces."
Customer Reviews:
A Room of Her Own.......2002-12-07
Absolutely fabulous!! A great gift for women
A room within myself.......2001-12-28
How many woman have a room within themself? How wonderful to actually be able to materialize that very room. This book shows the love, peace, energy and spirit of a room by the owner. It
encouraged me to explore and create my personal space.
Thank you for a book that sits next to my bed.
A Room of My Own.......2001-01-24
Wonderful book! A friend of mine loaned me her copy, but I had to go out and buy one for myself. Beautiful photography and inside stories about women who were brave enough to carve out their own space and call it that, "Mine!'. Many women I know would love to find the courage to do this, but don't. We all need a little corner to call our very own. I have one now thanks to Ms. Casson Madden. I'm surrounded by items which inspire and motivate me to do, think, and be my best.
Acknowledge your need for a haven!.......2000-12-15
This book is lovely and speaks to women everywhere. When the pressures of life build up and we need to feel safe and warm, there is nothing like a space of our own with all our favorite things and colors in it. This book shares ideas and inspiration, from decorating small spaces and outdoor tents (really),to the positive changes that have come about when women honor themselves with their own haven. Buy this book if you are looking for a "deeper" decorating experience. Oh, just buy this book because it's wonderful!
I 'escaped with this book and loved it!.......2000-09-13
Not what a 'typical' decorating book is but it was a wonderful book. If you are looking for a decorating book, it will give you ideas, but it is much more than that. This book is a look into other womens lives and personal spaces. It gives you ideas for your own personal space by showing you what some have done. Creativity is in all of us. The ideas and examples given in this book are fantastic. Your creativity will flow after reading this book and looking at all of the beautiful pictures.
Customer Reviews:
Heartbreaking.......2007-03-23
OH! Was I suprised to find this series by Brenda Novak ! Harlequin were books I really try not to buy many of, but I am so glad I bought these. I come from a small town and I'm not surprised at all by the way Lucky was treated. Many times as I read that story I felt her hurt and pain. Funny she returned to her home town and so did I but many years later than she did. She searched for her father as I did and believe me hers was a lot nicer than mine. In life, mistakes are made but we should be held accountable for our own not our relatives. I have really enjoyed most of this series . some more than others. I read most of Brenda's books and am waiting for her newest to come out in August. Wonderful author.
Not my favorite in this series.......2006-04-22
Sorry, folks...I just didn't like this one as well as the other reviewers did, or as well as the others in this series. Maybe it just evoked too many negative emotions, or maybe I just don't understand small-town life.
The town of Dundee, Idaho is populated with narrow-minded, self-serving individuals with only a few exceptions (one being Booker, who has his own story in this series). I can't understand why a good, kind person like Lucky-who is judged solely on her mother's actions-would waste a minute of her time on any of them, or want any of them to be her father or husband.
She's more forgiving than most people could be (I'd have taken the bribe and got the heck out, myself) and that makes her an admirable character to add to this series.
Great character development here, and a nice flow to the story if you like it...the book is well-researched, and the contemporary references are accurate and realistic. Not a total bummer, it just wasn't for me.
Love needs no boundaries.......2006-03-08
Novak did an excellent job portraying the emotions and walls that need to be broken down to allow yourself to love another no matter what the circumstances and person's past. I couldn't put this one down for a second. I look forward to more Superromances from the people of Dundee, Idaho.
Best of the Dundee Series!.......2005-07-04
I've read all of the books in Ms. Novak's Dundee, Idaho series, and love them all, but this one captured my heart. Lucky and Mike are perhaps the two most real, emotional and captivating characters I've read in a long time and the tension between them is so perfectly portrayed it lights this book on fire! Honestly, pick up this book and read it. You will not be disappointed.
Great romance!.......2005-06-16
This is a great romance - the heroine comes back to a town where she is hated and judged because of the character of her late mother - it is heart wrenching to read about how cruelly she is treated based on people's mistaken impressions of her. She's home to find out who her father is, but while she's there, she falls in love with the last person she should - the grandson of one of her mother's former husbands. Her mother destroyed his grandfather's marriage, so his mother and father hate her and her whole family. He tells her they can never have a relationship but keeps sneaking around to see her and only realizes how much he needs her when she walks away. This is a real tear jerker - get the kleenex - you'll need it!!
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Inc. Your Dreams: For Any Woman Who Is Thinking About Her Own Business
Rebecca Maddox
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: 014023537X |
Customer Reviews:
Great Launching Pad for Success!.......2003-02-26
I received the audiotapes of this book as a gift from a friend in 1995. I listened to the tapes once, then went through them again and did the exercises. Not only did they help me figure out if I was a good candidate to run my own business, but the exercises helped me to see my strengths and skills in a whole new way! I bought the book, and have gone through it and the audiotapes several times since then, at key points in my life. Rebecca's audiotapes and book have helped me to clarify what I want to do with my life and and what I want to release from my life. I've bought several copies of the books for friends who were getting ready to take the leap into new careers, and every one of them has benefitted from Rebecca's wisdom and exercises! Rebecca's success - and her straightforward way of sharing it - has truly bred success in my life and the life of my friends!
I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS BOOK IS STILL FOR SALE.......2002-03-13
Book is terrible, weak, poorly written and waste of time. I can't believe that it is still for sale, as I heard that the author bought all copies, nobody else would. Don't waste your time!
This Book is Awful!!!.......2002-02-22
If you are really interested in doing what you want to do and realizing your dreams--there are better things to read than this trash. For women, I would recommend anything by Faith Popcorn or
Carol Hyatt, both are much better writers and convey more meaningful information.
Life changing.......2001-12-17
Rebecca gives us an honest look at what must be done to prepare for entrepreneurship. She gives us ways to test ourselves to see if we have what it takes to be successful. Rebecca makes us think about our individual motivations and how to apply what we love to what we do. A personal and professional must read!
create what you love.......2000-07-18
This is a great book to begin self discovery. The matrix is a way of looking at how your gifts, talents, skills discribe the truth about you. Furthermore, if your willing to ponder some more you will discover your-dreams. Begin to Inc. your dreams, that is what this book is about. Create for yourself what you want. Own your business and work that you love!
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Royal residences, palaces and castles, bowers and hunting lodges, river banks and islets, the homes of princes
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This Book Shows You Exactly How to Earn Cash Crafting at Home - And You're the Boss
In fact, every Fall and Spring I make up to $1,000 a day.
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Over 15 years ago, when the idea first hit me for the In-Home Craft formula, I was bogged down in an 8-to-5 job 20 freeway miles from home and missing my new baby more every moment of the tedious day. Finally, I quit, started this In-Home Craft business, and it was the best thing I have ever done. Now that my daughter is 15 years old, I have decided to share this wonderful money-maker with crafters everywhere.
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A Home of Her Own
Cathleen Connors
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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ASIN: 0786272287 |
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No matter how far she roamed, Melodie Coleman had never quite shaken the dust of her Wyoming hometown - nor the bittersweet memories. Now, widowed and pregnant, she was back in high country for her mother's funeral. Back to face a charismatic cowboy - and the truth about why she shattered his heart so long ago . . . And for Buck Foster, seeing Melodie again renewed not just the pain of being jilted, but the spark of first love.
Available only in Romance 8 and 12.
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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Countryside Publications Ltd. on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 868 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Don't move the babies! Mother Nature (and her creatures) are pretty good at taking care of their own. So even if you're tempted ...
Author: Tom O'Toole
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Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Countryside Publications Ltd.
Volume: 87
Issue: 3
Page: 108(2)
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