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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 a 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 twelve-year quest that covered three continents as Schwartz sought answers in the historical records and among those who remembered that time. Welcomed into the homes of both the Jews who had fled the village fifty years earlier and the Christians who had remained, Schwartz peered into family albums, ate home-baked linzertorte (almost everyone served it!), and heard countless stories about life in one small village before, during, and after Nazi times. Sometimes stories overlapped, sometimes one memory challenged another, but always they seemed to muddy the waters of easy judgment. Small stories of decency are often overlooked in the wake of a larger historic narrative. Yet 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. How, this book asks, do neighbors maintain a modicum of decency in such times? How do we negotiate evil and remain humane when, as in the Nazi years, hate rules?
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History, City and town life, Jews, Local History, Ethnic relations, National socialism, Immigrants, Assimilation (Sociology), Judaism, Relations, Christianity, Kristallnacht, 1938, Family, Christians, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Biography, Social aspects of National socialism, Black Forest (Germany), SOCIAL SCIENCE, Minority Studies, Anthropology, Cultural, Discrimination & Race Relations, Black forest (germany), Germany, ethnic relations, Jews, germanyPeople
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Good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's German village
2009, University of Nebraska Press
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Good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's German village
2009, University of Nebraska Press
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village
March 1, 2008, University of Nebraska Press
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Good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's German village
2007, University of Nebraska Press
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