My German question : growing up in Nazi Berlin / Peter Gay
- Bib ID:
- 2133659
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gay, Peter, 1923-
- Description:
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998
- xii, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0300076703 (alkaline paper)
- 0300080700 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, antireligious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939 - "the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings - then and now - toward Germany and the Germans."--BOOK JACKET.
"Even before the events of 1938-39, culminating in Kristallnacht, the family was convinced that they must leave the country. Gay describes the bravery and ingenuity of his father in working out the agonizing emigration process, the courage of the non-Jewish friends who helped his family during their last bitter months in Germany, and the family's mounting panic as they witnessed the indifference of other countries to their plight and that of others like themselves. Gay's account - marked by candor, modesty, and insight - adds an important and curiously neglected perspective to the history of German Jewry."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2093 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2023
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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