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My Father’s Resistance: A Memoir

JL;DR SUMMARY Shulamit Reinharz's memoir, "My Father's Resistance," uncovers the hidden life and untold acts of resistance by her father, Rabbi Max Rothschild, primarily during the Nazi regime. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityZionismMemoirNazi GermanyResistanceBuchenwaldShulamit ReinharzMax Rothschild

Places mentioned

New Jersey, United States
"my parents, Max and Ilse Rothschild, who lived in New Jersey."
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
"with us to Ann Arbor."
Brandeis, Massachusetts, United States
"I retired from teaching at Brandeis in 2017,"
Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, Germany
"My father was born in Gunzenhausen,"
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"sent him to Munich to escape Gunzenhausens antisemitism"
Ludwigshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
"She had left her antisemitic school in Ludwigshafen"
Ellguth, Bavaria, Germany
"to a Zionist farm near Ellguth in Upper Silesia."
Buchenwald, Saxony, Germany
"boys were dispatched to the Buchenwald concentration camp."
Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands
"to partner with a Jewish group in the small Dutch city of Deventer"
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