Mimi Schwartz - Good Neighbors, Bad Times

Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers--and her father's boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her father, "before Hitler, everyone got along"? It was only many years later, when she heard the remarkable story of the Torah from that very village being rescued by Christians on Kristallnacht, that Schwartz began to sense how much these stories might mean. Thus began a remarkable twelve-year quest that covered three continents as Schwartz sought answers in the historical records and among those who remembered that time. We need these stories to provide a moral compass, especially in times of political extremism, when fear and hatred strain the bonds of loyalty and neighborly compassion.

Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village (Hardcover)

By Mimi Schwartz

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780803213746
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Published: University of Nebraska Press, 03/01/2008

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