{"product_id":"good-neighbors-bad-times-revisited-new-echoes-ofmy-fathers-german-village-paperback-softback-9781496221209","title":"Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited; New Echoes OfMy Father's German Village (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496221209","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGood Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Echoes OfMy Father's German Village\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMimi Schwartz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496221209\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e318 pages, 25 photographs, 2 illustrations, discussion questions\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.43 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father's German Village\u003c\/i\u003e is an inherently fascinating and exceptionally informative blend of memoir and history.\"-Michael Dunford, \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In this new edition Mimi Schwartz brings us back to her father’s ancestral village of Rexingen in the German Black Forest to show us that, generations later, it still has much to teach us about decency then and now.”-Frank Mecklenburg, director of research and chief archivist of the Leo Baeck Institute\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Even if you have read \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors, Bad Times\u003c\/i\u003e before, you should read it again. In this second edition, Schwartz’s scrupulously researched, humane, and multivoiced account of a German village where Jews and Gentiles ‘all got along,’ according to [her] father, has been profoundly enriched. . . . The meaning of ‘neighbor’ gains an utterly new dimension.”-Alicia Ostriker, poet laureate of New York State\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Mimi Schwartz reminds us how close we are (in time, in danger, in sentiment) to the horrific past, but that, even then, individual stories from everyday people show us grace and goodness and generosity despite the suffering.”-Patrick Madden, author of \u003ci\u003eDisparates\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"With the two perspectives of Sayer and Schwartz you are able to see corroborating and contrasting points of view. By putting them together they showcase a deeper understanding of the village of this pivotal time. . . . Schwartz is again able to craft a narrative in a way that updates the idea of memoirs and how they can be used to educate readers.\"-thenerdygirlexpress.com\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMimi 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, \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors, Bad Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sayer wrote an unpublished memoir about his childhood memories and in Schwartz’s new edition, \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Preface: Why I’\u003cbr\u003em Revisiting Good Neighbors, Bad Times    \u003cbr\u003e Author’\u003cbr\u003es Note to the First Edition    \u003cbr\u003e Part One. Close to Home\u003cbr\u003e 1. Treadmill to the Past    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Anonymous Translation    \u003cbr\u003e 3. At the Nachmittag    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Kaffeeklatsch    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Joie de Vivre    \u003cbr\u003e 6. Four Stories of the Torah    \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Revolving Room    \u003cbr\u003e Part Two. An Ocean Away\u003cbr\u003e 8. Off the Record    \u003cbr\u003e 9. A Little Respect, Please    \u003cbr\u003e 10. The Good Raincoat    \u003cbr\u003e 11. Hedwig, Fritz, and “\u003cbr\u003eSchtumpela”\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 12. The Second Generation    \u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Back and Forth\u003cbr\u003e 13. Willy from Baltimore    \u003cbr\u003e 14. Five Kilometers Away    \u003cbr\u003e 15. A House of Antiques    \u003cbr\u003e 16. Truth Transposed    \u003cbr\u003e 17. What Willy’\u003cbr\u003es Neighbor Says . . .    \u003cbr\u003e 18. The Red Album    \u003cbr\u003e 19. Where Legend Ends    \u003cbr\u003e 20. At My Father’\u003cbr\u003es Grave    \u003cbr\u003e Part Four. End Points\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Other Miriam    \u003cbr\u003e 22. Three Little Girls    \u003cbr\u003e 23. Yes or No?    \u003cbr\u003e 24. The Celebration    \u003cbr\u003e Coda: The Conversation Continues\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Discussion Questions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739523051800,"sku":"9781496221209","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/good-neighbors-bad-times-revisited-new-echoes-ofmy-fathers-german-village-paperback-softback-9781496221209","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}