From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society s
"It is the best group portrait of German Jewry that we have." —Washington Post Book World " . . . weaves a fascinating social tapestry of German Jewry from 17
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of
A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and a