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The Oppermanns
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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781946022332
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: Oct 18 2022
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.04 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
A long-forgotten masterpiece published in 1933 . . . 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. --Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic
Written 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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