Badenheim Nineteen Thirty-nine

Badenheim Nineteen Thirty-nine
Title Badenheim Nineteen Thirty-nine PDF eBook
Author Aharon Appelfeld
Publisher David R. Godine Publisher
Pages 149
Release 2009
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1567923917

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It is the spring of 1939 in the age of anxiety. In months Europe will be Hitler's. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as they always have, a sampling of Jewish middleclass life: the impresario Dr. Pappenheim, his musicians, and their conductor; the gay Frau Tsauberblit; the historian Dr. Fussholdt and his much younger wife; the 'readers, ' twins whose passion for Rilke is featured on their program; a child prodigy; a commercial traveler; a rabbi. The list waxes as the summer wanes. To receive them in the town are the pharmacist and his worried wife, the hotelier and his large staff, the pastry shop owner and his irritable baker, Sally and Gertie (two quite respectable prostitutes), and, mysteriously, the bland inspectors from the "Sanitation Department." The story unfolds as matter-of-factly as a Chekhov play. The characters on stage are so deeply held by their defensive daily trivia that they manage to misconstrue every signal of their fate. Finally, de facto prisoners in their familiar resort, the vacationers, now increased by the forced crowding-in of other Jews hardly on vacation, take on the lineaments of undefined disaster. The text builds a sense of foreboding in which each human detail is so persuasive, so right in its fidelity to the terrible evasions of the time, that it leaves the reader transformed by what he and the author know must happen to Badenheim's people. Badenheim 1939 owes everything to its author's astonishing capacity to recreate the energies and confusions of innocent and uncomprehending victims who, always loyal to civility and social graces, fail to even dimly see thecruel terms of their imminent fate.

A Resource Book for Educators

A Resource Book for Educators
Title A Resource Book for Educators PDF eBook
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Pages 115
Release 1995
Genre Genocide
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Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography
Title Annotated Bibliography PDF eBook
Author Margaret A. Drew
Publisher
Pages 36
Release 1994
Genre Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Literature of the Holocaust

Literature of the Holocaust
Title Literature of the Holocaust PDF eBook
Author Robb Erskine
Publisher Infobase Publishing
Pages 334
Release 2009
Genre Criticism
ISBN 1438114990

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Examines the literature of the period of the Holocaust in Jewish history that includes the work of James E. Young, Lawrence W. Langer, Geoffrey H. Hartman and others.

Taking Time Off in Israel

Taking Time Off in Israel
Title Taking Time Off in Israel PDF eBook
Author Fern Reiss
Publisher
Pages 164
Release 1986
Genre Travel
ISBN 9780915361151

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Books in Print

Books in Print
Title Books in Print PDF eBook
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Pages 2132
Release 1994
Genre American literature
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Books in Print Supplement

Books in Print Supplement
Title Books in Print Supplement PDF eBook
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Pages 1852
Release 1994
Genre American literature
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