{"product_id":"oppermanns","title":"The Oppermanns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A long-forgotten masterpiece published in 1933 . . . A remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and--this may feel most familiar to us today--the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point.\" --Gal Beckerman, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written 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":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41927119503445,"sku":"9781946022332","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/0211\/1317\/files\/imageloader_fb06b9fc-b601-4fb1-af88-7f1e7abbcd61.jpg?v=1764637301","url":"https:\/\/shopchapterbookstores.com\/products\/oppermanns","provider":"Chapter One","version":"1.0","type":"link"}