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Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of Terror, Bruce Neuburger Speaks

Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of Terror
Date:
Friday, June 14, 2024
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Revolution Books
Email:
Phone:
5108481196
Location Details:
Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704

This book is the story of a Jewish family living in Germany during the rise and rule of fascism.

Deeply researched, this narrative history of Bruce Neuberger’s grandparents and extended family is drawn from direct interviews and a mass of archival documents, including the Neuburgers’ final letters.

What emerges is a vivid portrayal of rising anti-Semitism and then society locking down, a slow-moving parade of horror, until it is not moving slowly anymore and it becomes necessary to do whatever one can to try to stop the horror.

Revolution Books is proud to host this presentation by Bruce Neuburger about his book, Postcards to Hitler, a work of history that holds very important lessons for our present time.

“Did the Jews of that era have a right to resist these crimes? Yes. Do the Palestinians have a right to resist their oppression and persecution? Yes. Should the people of the world support the Palestinians? Yes again. Should Jewish people support Palestinians? Absolutely.

If we are to uproot the soil on which antisemitism and all forms of racism flourish, we must oppose this racialized nationalism and racial persecution wherever it manifests itself, whether in Germany in 1940, or Israel or the U.S today.”- Bruce Neuberger

Bruce Neuburger is the child of holocaust survivors from Germany. Shaped as well by the great social justice movements of the 1960s. Author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California published by Monthly Review Press and the Spanish translation Guerras de Lechuga published by Köehler and Cafe Con Leche books. Author of numerous articles on social justice issues, especially immigrants.

For more about the book, visit the website: http://www.postcardstohitler.com.

Praise for the book:

Bruce Neuburger has told the very personal story of his grandfather Benno, who was executed for resisting Hitler’s persecution. Neuburger’s powerful writing recreates the atmosphere of the times as his family fights for its existence. This is a book that calls us to stand up against injustice and that gives us hope in disturbing times.—Maximilian Strnad, historian, author of The Fortune of Survival – Intermarried German Jews in the late stage of the Shoah.

Order the book https://www.revolutionbooks.org/book/9781685900540.
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