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An Israeli returns to Austria, thirty years after the Holocaust, to understand his own father's fate. "A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous."-Times Literary SupplementThe secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic...

The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people. And so when her panic-stricken family flees the encroaching Nazi armies, Tzili is left behind to fend for herself. At first seeking refuge with the local peasants, she i...

A small masterpiece of world literature, set in Europe months before the Nazis began their rise.It is spring 1939. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as they always have, a sampling of Jewish middle-class life: the impresario Dr. Pappenheim, his musicians, and their conductor, the bubbly Frau Tsauberblit, the historian, Dr. Fussholdt, and his much younger wife...