LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES: A MEMOIR

A memoir beginning with a precocious child growing up in a prosperous, assimilated German-Jewish family in Berlin, and a Germany roiled by war, the Great Depression, and the growth of anti-Semitism and National Socialism. To obtain her PhD in Zoology from Berlin University, the author learned Turkish and collected mammals in remote areas of Turkey. This was during the dictatorship of Kemal Atatürk, where she witnessed the conflict of secularization and traditional culture. After being award...