Jew Süss
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GANFM2W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 355 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"An uncomfortable book" according to Ralph Blumenau. It is somewhat surprising that this novel, which became a best-seller soon after it was first published in 1925, should have been written by a self-consciously Jewish writer. Though its purpose was to expose and condemn antisemitism, it is easy to see that how the Nazis co. "Jew Suss" according to A Customer. A Russian friend told me to buy this bookhe said it was extremely popular about young Russian Jews I found it to be a powerfully healing book for people who are in turmoil and looking for some purpose in the grand scheme of thingsthe book in parts is very biting,very distu. Superb historical novel of Medieval Europe and the Jews. Feuchtwanger is probably the best historical novelist in the world - truly superb in erudition and majestic in his literary style. While this German Jewish writer is famous for his Josephus trilogy detailing the scenes of the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, he
If, in spite of this, they were one, more one than all the other peoples of the world, it was the Book that sweated them into unity. More than that, Süss finds himself being in the position of potential kingmaker. When Feuchtwanger’s two best known novels “Jew Süss” (“Power”) and “Ugly Duchess” were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. "The Book; yes, their Book. Brown, white, black, yellow Jews, large a