My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped

by Lev Raphael

Book Overview

Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. A son of Holocaust survivors, haunted by his parents' suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, he was certain that Germany was one place in the world he would never visit. Those feelings shaped his Jewish and gay identity, his life, and his career.
Then the barriers of a lifetime began to come down, as revealed in this moving memoir. After his mother's death, while researching her war years,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029923150X
• ISBN13: 9780299231507
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"