Good neighbors, bad times
Subtitle: echoes of my father's German village
By: Mimi Schwartz.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780803226401
Subjects: Schwartz, Mimi -- Family; Jews -- Germany -- Black Forest -- History -- 20th century; Christians -- Germany -- Black Forest -- History -- 20th century; City and town life -- Germany -- Black Forest -- History -- 20th century; Kristallnacht, 1938 -- Germany -- Black Forest; National socialism -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Black Forest -- History; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography; Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States; Black Forest (Germany) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century; Black Forest (Germany) -- History, Local
Genres: Biography
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Close to home; title: Treadmill to the past; title: Anonymous translation; title: At the Nachmittag; title: Kaffeeklatsch; title: Joie de vivre; title: Four stories of the Torah; title: The revolving room; title: pt. 2. An ocean away; title: Off the record; title: A little respect, please; title: The good raincoat; title: Hedwig, Fritz, and "Schtumpela"; title: The second generation; title: pt. 3. Back and forth; title: Willy from Baltimore; title: Five kilometers away; title: Katherine of Dorn; title: Truth transposed; title: What Willy's neighbor says...; title: The red album; title: Where legend ends; title: At my father's grave; title: pt. 4. End points; title: The other Miriam; title: Three little girls; title: Yes or no?; title: The celebration.