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Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns

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The Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. One is a respected critic, book collector, and bon vivant. None can take Hitler or his supporters seriously. To them, anti-Semitism is a thing of the past. Only their sister and her husband grasp the true danger when the Oppermanns are pressured to bring an “Aryan” competitor into the family firm, or a new teacher changes the history lessons at their children’s school, or violence erupts in the streets.

Written in 1933—in real time, as the Nazis consolidated power—The Oppermanns 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.

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