Mimi Schwartz\'s father was born Jewish in a tiny German Village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he\'d tell her, We all got along.
Mimi Schwartz is professor emerita in the writing program at.
Given the rise of xenophobia, white supremacy, and anti-Semitism in the world today, this exploration seems more urgent than ever.
Weaving excerpts from Sayer\'s memoir and from a yearlong correspondence with him into her book, Schwartz revisits Village history from a new perspective, deepening our understanding of decency and demonization.
Sayer wrote an unpublished memoir about his childhood memories and in Schwartz\'s new edition, Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited, the two memoirs talk to each other.
The two families had never met.
Sayer, it turns out, grew up Catholic in the Village during the Third Reich and in 1937 moved into an abandoned Jewish home five houses away from where the family of Schwartz\'s father had lived for generations before fleeing to America a few months earlier.
Ten years after its publication, a letter arrived from a man named Max Sayer in South Australia.
In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Schwartz explored how human decency fared among Christian and Jewish Neighbors before, during, and after Nazi times.
Mimi Schwartz\'s father was born Jewish in a tiny German Village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he\'d tell her, We all got along.
Given the rise of xenophobia, white supremacy, and anti-Semitism in the world today, this exploration seems more urgent than ever.
Weaving excerpts from Sayer\'s memoir and from a yearlong correspondence with him into her book, Schwartz revisits Village history from a new perspective, deepening our understanding of decency and demonization.
Sayer wrote an unpublished memoir about his childhood memories and in Schwartz\'s new edition, Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited, the two memoirs talk to each other.
The two families had never met.
Sayer, it turns out, grew up Catholic in the Village during the Third Reich and in 1937 moved into an abandoned Jewish home five houses away from where the family of Schwartz\'s father had lived for generations before fleeing to America a few months earlier.
Ten years after its publication, a letter arrived from a man named Max Sayer in South Australia.
In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Schwartz explored how human decency fared among Christian and Jewish Neighbors before, during, and after Nazi times.
Mimi Schwartz\'s father was born Jewish in a tiny German Village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he\'d tell her, We all got along
