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Kahn & Engelmann.
- Title
- Kahn & Engelmann.
- Publication
- Biblioasis 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PT3919.E39 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 334 p.; 22 cm. cm.
- Summary
- "A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their loves, business ventures and failings and their eventual tragic destruction, recreating a vanished Vienna with humour and humanity. Travelling, in the words of narrator Peter Engelmann, is "the involuntary national sport of the Jews," and Engelmann does much of it: through snowy woods to escape the Nazis to a new life in England, then on to Australia, Canada and eventually Israel. It is also a novel of faith and its attendant crises, and of the strained relationship of literature to the world. Written by an eminent scholar, himself a survivor of Nazism, Kahn & Engelmann is both an entertaining novel and a major work of Holocaust literature, available for the first time to an English-reading audience."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Kahn and Engelmann
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- Belletristische Darstellung.
- Domestic fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781897231548
- 1897231547
- OCLC
- 310153549
- SCSB-11472683
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library