{"product_id":"the-oppermanns-paperback","title":"The Oppermanns - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLion Feuchtwanger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJames Cleugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, \u003ci\u003eThe Oppermanns\u003c\/i\u003e captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written in 1933, nearly in real time, \u003ci\u003eThe Oppermanns\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLion Feuchtwanger\u003c\/b\u003e (1884-1958) was known in the 1920s as a bestselling historical novelist, a frequent collaborator with Bertolt Brecht, and an early, outspoken critic of the Nazi movement. Forced into exile in France, Feuchtwanger and his wife were interned by the Vichy government during World War II. They escaped to the United States and settled in Pacific Palisades, where they became central figures in the émigré community that included Brecht as well as Thomas and Heinrich Mann, among many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoving Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWitz\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eHe: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: The Elias Canetti Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.43 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43627036278873,"sku":"9781946022332","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/eW9teUvPKP9781946022332.webp?v=1783954507","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/de\/products\/the-oppermanns-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}