Good Neighbors Bad Times

Author : Mimi Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803226401
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Neighbors, Bad Times written by Mimi Schwartz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her father's stories about his boyhood in Germany, the author looks at the history of life in one small German village before, during and after the Nazis and at the integral relationships among Jewish and Christian neighbors, including the rescue of the town's Torah by Christians on Kristallnacht. Reprint.

Author : Mimi Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221206
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited written by Mimi Schwartz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited, Mimi Schwartz revisits the story of her father's German village during the Third Reich ten years after the book's initial publication"--

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152480103
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Musicians written by Kathleen Krull and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are musicians really like?

Author : Sarah Langan
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 198214436X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Neighbors written by Sarah Langan and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by Goodreads as One of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021 “A modern-day Crucible….Beneath the surface of a suburban utopia, madness lurks.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish “A sinkhole opens on Maple Street, and gossip turns the suburban utopia toxic. A taut teachable moment about neighbors turning on neighbors.” —People “One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I've ever read. Langan cuts to the heart of upper middle class lives like a skilled surgeon.” —NPR ​Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger. Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. But menace skulks beneath the surface of this exclusive enclave, making its residents prone to outrage. When the Wilde family moves in, they trigger their neighbors’ worst fears. Dad Arlo’s a gruff has-been rock star with track marks. Mom Gertie’s got a thick Brooklyn accent, with high heels and tube tops to match. Their weird kids cuss like sailors. They don’t fit with the way Maple Street sees itself. Though Maple Street’s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder—a lonely college professor repressing a dark past—welcomed Gertie and her family at first, relations went south during one spritzer-fueled summer evening, when the new best friends shared too much, too soon. By the time the story opens, the Wildes are outcasts. As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea’s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes. Suddenly, it is one mom’s word against the other’s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood. A riveting and ruthless portrayal of American suburbia, Good Neighbors excavates the perils and betrayals of motherhood and friendships and the dangerous clash between social hierarchy, childhood trauma, and fear.

Author : Mimi Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496225732
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited written by Mimi Schwartz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimi Schwartz's father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he'd tell her, "We all got along." In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Schwartz explored how human decency fared among Christian and Jewish neighbors before, during, and after Nazi times. Ten years after its publication, a letter arrived from a man named Max Sayer in South Australia. Sayer, it turns out, grew up Catholic in the village during the Third Reich and in 1937 moved into an abandoned Jewish home five houses away from where the family of Schwartz's father had lived for generations before fleeing to America a few months earlier. The two families had never met. Sayer wrote an unpublished memoir about his childhood memories and in Schwartz's new edition, Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited, the two memoirs talk to each other. Weaving excerpts from Sayer's memoir and from a yearlong correspondence with him into her book, Schwartz revisits village history from a new perspective, deepening our understanding of decency and demonization. Given the rise of xenophobia, white supremacy, and anti-Semitism in the world today, this exploration seems more urgent than ever.

Author : Joanne Serling
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455541893
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Neighbors written by Joanne Serling and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of suburbia, friendship, and family strained by a devotion to false appearances. In an idyllic suburb, four young families quickly form a neighborhood clique, their friendships based on little more than the ages of their children and a shared sense of camaraderie. When one of the couples, Paige and Gene Edwards, adopt a four-year-old girl from Russia, the group's loyalty and morality is soon called into question. Are the Edwards unkind to their new daughter? Or is she a difficult child with hidden destructive tendencies? As the seams of the group friendship slowly unravel, neighbor Nicole Westerhof finds herself drawn further into the life of the adopted girl, forcing Nicole to re-examine the deceptive nature of her own family ties, and her complicity in the events unfolding around her.

Author : Holly Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439855631
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kith written by Holly Black and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sixteen-year-old Rue Silver travels into the faerie realm to find her mother, faerie creatures are entering the human world and wreaking havoc, forcing Rue to ponder where her loyalty should lie.

Author : Mimi Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207297
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When History Is Personal written by Mimi Schwartz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz's life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and social issues. These essays look both inward and outward so that these individualized tales tell a larger story--of assimilation, the women's movement, racism, anti-Semitism, end-of-life issues, ethics in writing, digital and corporate challenges, and courtroom justice. A shrewd and discerning storyteller, Schwartz captures history from her vantage as a child of German-Jewish immigrants, a wife of over fifty years, a breast cancer survivor, a working mother, a traveler, a tennis player, a daughter, and a widow. In adding her personal story to the larger narrative of history, culture, and politics, Schwartz invites readers to consider her personal take alongside "official" histories and offers readers fresh assessments of our collective past.

Author : Arlene Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199381917
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Witnesses written by Arlene Stein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely absent from American culture and the tragedy of the Holocaust was generally seen as irrelevant to non-Jewish Americans. Today, the Holocaust is widely recognized as a universal moral touchstone. In Reluctant Witnesses, sociologist Arlene Stein--herself the daughter of a Holocaust survivor--mixes memoir, history, and sociological analysis to tell the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants. If survivors tended to see Holocaust storytelling as mainly a private affair, their children--who reached adulthood during the heyday of identity politics--reclaimed their hidden family histories and transformed them into public stories. Reluctant Witnesses documents how a group of people who had previously been unrecognized and misunderstood managed to find its voice. It tells this story in relation to the changing status of trauma and victimhood in American culture. At a time when a sense of Holocaust fatigue seems to be setting in and when the remaining survivors are at the end of their lives, it affirms that confronting traumatic memories and catastrophic histories can help us make our world mean something beyond ourselves.

Author : Mindy Lewis
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 0786744448
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DIRT written by Mindy Lewis and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection to which everyone can relate: a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our stuff, our dwellings, and our personal space clean and uncluttered. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about who we are, our roots, relationships, and our outlook on life.