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OverviewThe story of a life of commitment, idealism, and unswerving courage, this text is the story of literary agent Ruth Liepman. Spanning two world wars, Liepman's story tells of her experiences with the Communist party in Germany, of the need to flee Hitler's Germany because of her political beliefs, and of her brave and vital work helping many refugees flee from Germany. Interspersed with these recollections are Liepman's many thoughts and reflections on her years working with books and authors. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth Liepman , John BroadwinPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Edition: Translated ed. Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780810112940ISBN 10: 0810112949 Pages: 150 Publication Date: 14 January 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsThe book moves quickly, her life is fascinating. She is a Jew, she was a Communist and yet she was able to escape Germany and work to help Jews. . . . . [O]ne has the feeling her age stopped somewhere in time and she remains the same daring, brave, adventurous woman. -- Jewish World News The book moves quickly, her life is fascinating. She is a Jew, she was a Communist and yet she was able to escape Germany and work to help Jews. . . . . [O]ne has the feeling her age stopped somewhere in time and she remains the same daring, brave, adventurous woman. --Jewish World News Liepman, a prominent European literary agent, recalls her turbulent Holocaust story and her career in this entry in Northwestern's Jewish Lives series. Born Ruth Lilienstein, the author grew up in a privileged Jewish family. Her father was a physician, the son of Orthodox parents who had rejected religion while closely embracing his Jewish identity. Ruth grew up as a smart, questioning young woman with a native but powerful sense of justice. Fueled by her experience at the excellent but unconventional Lichtwark School, that sense of justice became an understanding of the way the world mistreats some and pampers other. Inevitably, at 19, she joined the German Communist Party and became an active cadre. She took up the study of law as a way of sidestepping her father's expectation that she would join his medical practice, and excelled in that field. But her politics and her Jewishness marked her as an obvious early target of the Nazis. As German historian Inge Marssolek notes in the book's postscript, Lilienstein was one of the first lawyers dismissed by the Nazis on political and racial grounds. She fled to Amsterdam in 1934, acquired a neutral passport by marrying a sympathetic Swiss, and went to work for the Swiss consulate after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, saving many jews, until circumstance forced her to go underground herself. When the war ended, she returned to Germany, met and married Heinz Liepman, a writer, and eventually ended up running the literary agency that has represented such classics as The Naked and the Dead and Catcher in the Rye in their German markets. Liepman, now 87, tells this dazzling story of intrigue and danger in flat, conversational pose with the faint air of the tape recorder running through it. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationRuth Liepman lives in Zurich. John A. Broadwin lives in California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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