{"product_id":"the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger","title":"The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Oppermanns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public spirited, proud inheritors of the German enlightenment. They don’t see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt—if they can—flee, or try to fight.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten in 1933, nearly in real time, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Oppermanns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e captures the day-to-day vertigo of watching a liberal democracy fall apart. As Joshua Cohen writes in his introduction to this new edition, it is “one of the last masterpieces of German-Jewish culture.” Prescient and chilling, it has lost none of its power today.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"S\u0026S","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896323358888,"sku":"uxa1787304557676","price":12.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/3246\/4808\/files\/the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger_1.jpg?v=1787304563","url":"https:\/\/www.greenvalleycart.shop\/products\/the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}