The Oppermanns Feuchtwanger LionelPaperback
The Oppermanns Feuchtwanger LionelPaperback 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…
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The Oppermanns Feuchtwanger LionelPaperback
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. The past and future meet in the saga of the Oppermanns, for three generations a family commercially well established in Berlin. 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.
In a Berlin inhabited by troops in brown shirts, however, the Oppermanns have more to fear than an alien discomfort. In assimilated citizens like them, the emancipated Jew in Germany has become a fact. For along with the swastikas and fascist