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The Empire of the Senses, by Alexis Landau
One of the most difficult things to teach the students in the World War II class I helped with last semester was the perversive, virulent anti-Semitism in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. They were familiar with some of the tropes in Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda, but they just didn’t get it. I wish I could have handed them Alexis Landau’s The Empire of the Senses. While the novel is also an interesting study in love and sacrifice, I think its characters also serve to illustrate the experience of German Jews between the world wars...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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