When History Enters the House
Subtitle: Essays from Central Europe
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780965141321
Subjects: Literature: Texts; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Europe; Germany; Essays; Europe - Germany; Europe - General
First sentence: The Germans (along with the Hungarians and others), are at it again ("it" being the killing, hounding, and epithet-hurling at those who are racially "other"), and-as the son of German-Jewish refugees who escaped, by the skin of their teeth and the vicissitudes of luck, the ravages of the Nazi Holocaust-it is easy (a bit too easy, I suspect) to feel an almost visceral dislike for the Germans, to be willing, in matters moral, never to give them the benefit of the doubt.