| #2286127 in Books | Other Press | 2008-11-04 | 2008-11-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.15 x5.50l, | File type: PDF | 400 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book should be read by all|By R. Rashbaum|This is a very sensitive book about the war in Germany and the Jewish people leaving Germany. The last to leave were the elite, the musicians. All borders were closed to the Jews all but Shanghai. They went there to try and have a life but what they found was filth, rats, and a life of drudgery. They tried to exist bu|From Publishers Weekly|Moving effortlessly from Paris to Dresden to Shanghai, Wagenstein (Isaac's Torah) masterfully chronicles the lives of European émigrés and refugees in WWII Shanghai. The cast of this ensemble novel is large. Elisabeth
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes–of dazzling wealth and wretched poverty, suffering and pleasure, and, for the four refugees, exile and safety. There, they enter the world of Jewish refugees, many of ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Farewell Shanghai | Angel Wagenstein. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
