“ valuable chronicle of what life was like for those who lived through persecution and faced execution. “A moving testament to the agony the author experienced.” - Chicago Tribune “ eloquent memoir.” - The Wall Street Journal His inquiry rivets without let up, powered by its unremitting candor.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review Historian Peter Gay introduces this memoir of his youth in Nazi Berlin and his familys forced emigration with an epigraph from Christopher Marlowes Tragical. Gay’s account-marked by candor, modesty, and insight-adds an important and curiously neglected perspective to the history of German Jewry. Gay describes the bravery and ingenuity of his father in working out this difficult emigration process, the courage of the non-Jewish friends who helped his family during their last bitter months in Germany, and the family’s mounting panic as they witnessed the indifference of other countries to their plight and that of others like themselves. Among them was a touching memoir, My German.

Gay relates that the early years of the Nazi regime were relatively benign for his family, yet even before the events of 1938–39, culminating in Kristallnacht, they were convinced they must leave the country. Peter Gay, who passed away on May 12 at age 91, was one of the great. In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939-“the story,” says Peter Gay, “of a poisoning and how I dealt with it.” With his customary eloquence and analytic acumen, Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings-then and now-toward Germany its people. My German question: growing up in Nazi Berlin. English en, epub, 6.9MB, Peter Gay - My German Question (1998, Yale University Press (Ignition)).epub. “Not only a memoir, it’s also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany” ( Publishers Weekly). Peter Gay 'Not only a memoir, its also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and Yale University Press.

My German Question by Peter Gay