{"product_id":"books-the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger","title":"The Oppermanns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, \u003ci\u003eThe Oppermanns\u003c\/i\u003e captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann pothers represent tradition and stability. One pother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public spirited, proud inheritors of the German enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt--if they can--flee, or try to fight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in 1933, nearly in real time, \u003ci\u003eThe Oppermanns\u003c\/i\u003e captures the day-to-day vertigo of watching a liberal democracy fall apart. As Joshua Cohen writes in his introduction to this new edition, it is \"one of the last masterpieces of German-Jewish culture.\" Prescient and chilling, it has lost none of its power today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53510864929041,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781946022332.jpg?v=1778181206","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}