The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger Discount Martin Buber

Martin Buber

newly arrived in the city

This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams

eternally pertinent questions that we can ask: What does it mean to be human

at a moment in time when they put themselves onto the path of integration into American life

The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger Discount Martin BuberWritten in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend. In 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