The Invisible Wall

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Advance Praise for e Invísíble 'This powerful and moving book-part memoir, part history, part filial tribute- succeeds at every level. By looking at the astonishing, tragic-heroic story of Jews in Germany through the prism of six of his ancestors and his own extraordinary life, Mike Blumenthal illuminates and helps explain how Germán Jews survived, grew, and prospered-and then were virtually annihilated. If the Goldhagen controversy confused you, this book will help clarify one of the most complex questions of the century." Richárd Holbrooke, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany and chief negotiator, Dayton Peace Agreement "Michael Blumenthars The Invisible Wall is one of the most impressive books I have read in a long time. Its significance is not only in terms of Jewish history but of the evolution of European social history. Using his own family tree as a paradigm, he has written a vivid and absorbing account of the Jewish experience in Germany from the seventeenth century until... Tovább

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Advance Praise for e Invísíble 'This powerful and moving book-part memoir, part history, part filial tribute- succeeds at every level. By looking at the astonishing, tragic-heroic story of Jews in Germany through the prism of six of his ancestors and his own extraordinary life, Mike Blumenthal illuminates and helps explain how Germán Jews survived, grew, and prospered-and then were virtually annihilated. If the Goldhagen controversy confused you, this book will help clarify one of the most complex questions of the century." Richárd Holbrooke, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany and chief negotiator, Dayton Peace Agreement "Michael Blumenthars The Invisible Wall is one of the most impressive books I have read in a long time. Its significance is not only in terms of Jewish history but of the evolution of European social history. Using his own family tree as a paradigm, he has written a vivid and absorbing account of the Jewish experience in Germany from the seventeenth century until 1939 when, as a teenager, he fled with his family-"poor outcast to poor outcast" after three hundred years. He explores the enduring questions of European Jewry: what is a Jew; how have they survived as an entity apart; why, even if prosperous, were they second-class citizens; how did the Holocaust come to happen in the very country where Jews had most completely and successfully integrated into mainstream society. This is a fascinating and thought-provoking work." Henry Kissinger, former U. S. Secretary of State "In this compelling family saga, Blumenthal, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter, traces the historical trajectory of Germán Jewry, from medieval ghetto to the Holocaust, through the lives of six of his ancestors. . . . His family album is a penetrating analysis of German-Jewish relations." Publishers Weekly Vissza