In the Shadow of Love: Stories from My Life

By Walter Meyerhoff

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564743934
• ISBN13: 9781564743930
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational!

Walter Meyerhof has written something really special. When I read his book - which I did in one 'go', as it was quite impossible to put it down - I felt really privileged to have entered his world and seen something of the joy he has obviously found in his life. INSPIRATIONAL was a title which came immediately to me as the title for this review. INSPIRATIONAL is what this little book is. Thank you, Professor Meyerhof, for showing us the way!

A fascinating holocaust survivor story

During the Hitler period, a number of extraordinary immigrants came to the USA, fleeing certain death because of their Jewish ancestry or religion. The USA did not make it easy for them to get in. Our society was extremely anti-semitic itself at that time. As a result, only the most promising people managed make the jump. Walter Meyerhof, who was the son of a Nobel prize winning scientist and who later went on to become a physics professor at Stanford, was one who made it out and made it here. Like many refugees, he was not actually Jewish, but had Jewish ancestry.The book consists of a number of short vignettes about Meyerhof's life. The vignettes are not really connected into a single narrative as one would expect from a biography, still one does get a picture of the flow of his life. The book's account of Meyerhof's flight from Hitler is understated, but the sense of the closing of the horrifying vice of death still comes through.Meyerhof's tales of his encounters with romance are also fascinating in giving us a window into how such things happened even before the "free love" generation.The book does leave us with many questions about the parts of the author's life that are missing. Still, the parts that are there are well worth reading.