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Mother’s Century: A Survivor, Her People and Her Times is the “bio-history” of Margarete Sobel Hermann, the author’s mother and role model, who lived 101 tumultuous and productive years. Her life spanned 95 percent of the twentieth century, during which she and her family experienced much of the good, the bad and the exceptionally ugly that marked that most violent of eras. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Imperial Vienna, she survived the First World War, famine and starvation, runaway inflation, political turmoil that makes what we are undergoing today pale in comparison, discrimination, street violence, the Great Depression, the Nazi takeover of Austria, the Holocaust during which scores of her relatives perished in the death camps, and the daunting task of getting herself and her family out of Europe to America. Once in the United States, she faced and overcame the formidable task of creating a new life for herself. The first two-thirds of this chronicle is about the initial one-third of her life—the European phase. The last third of this book is an account of the last two-thirds of her life—the American story. The theme that carries through this remarkable life is one of perseverance, grit in the face of often overwhelming odds and obstacles.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780999136614 |
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| Publisher: | Persimmon Alley Press LLC |
| Publication date: | 12/21/2018 |
| Pages: | 458 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Vienna, 1905-1934
Chapter 1. The Calendar Turns
Chapter 2. The World’s Magnet
Chapter 3. Antecedents
Chapter 4. Shrinks
Chapter 5. Vindobona and Its Jews
Chapter 6. Angst
Chapter 7. Sclerosis
Chapter 8. Leopoldstadt
Chapter 9. The Wienerwald
Chapter 10. Sarajevo
Chapter 11. The War to End All Wars
Chapter 12. Privation
Chapter 13. The Spoilage of War
Chapter 14. Aftermath
Chapter 15. Rump State
Chapter 16. Intermezzo: Post-War Austrian Politics
Chapter 17. Prosperity Returns (Briefly)
Chapter 18. Education
Chapter 19. Graduation
Chapter 20. Musical Interlude
Chapter 21. Rejection
Chapter 22. Numerus Clausus
Chapter 23. Religion
Chapter 24. Medical School
Chapter 25. Smitten
Chapter 26. Hospitant, Aspirant, Rezident
Chapter 27. Crash
Chapter 28. Sanatorium
Chapter 29. The Practice
Part Two: Vienna, 1934-1939
Chapter 30. Setting the Stage
Chapter 31. Portents from the North
Chapter 32. The Downward Slide
Chapter 33. Anschluss
Chapter 34. The Taming of the Jews
Chapter 35. Ernst Escapes
Chapter 36. Closing the Vice
Chapter 37. The Noose Tightens
Chapter 38. The Summer of ‘38
Chapter 39. Kristallnacht—The Night of Broken Glass
Chapter 40. Blood, Not Religion
Chapter 41. Implementing Mass Murder
Chapter 42. Getting Out
Chapter 43. Getting In
Chapter 44. War
Chapter 45. The Final Solution Hits Home
Chapter 46. Mountbatten and Marriage
Chapter 47. Endgame
Chapter 48. Reckoning
Chapter 49. Selective Punishment
Part Three: Bi-Coastal, 1939–1948
Chapter 50. In Transit
Chapter 51. The New World
Chapter 52. Following Her Heart
Chapter 53. It Was San Andreas’ Fault
Chapter 54. Choosing Poorly
Chapter 55. Searching for Shangri-La
Part Four: Small-Town America, 1948–1978
Chapter 56. Into the Provinces
Chapter 57. The Chosen People in the Chosen Place
Chapter 58. Friends
Chapter 59. Refugee Quest
Chapter 60. American Provincial
Chapter 61. Making It in America
Chapter 62. Going Back
Chapter 63. Madly for Adlai
Chapter 64. Books
Chapter 65. Caring
Chapter 66. Suddenly It’s 1960!
Chapter 67. November 21, 1963
Chapter 68. College Unbound
Chapter 69. The Sixties
Chapter 70. Animal Magnetism
Chapter 71. Enemy Territory
Part Five: Miami Beach, 1978-1994
Chapter 72. Following the Sun
Chapter 73. The Impact of the Florida Phenomenon
Chapter 74. Gloom Over Miami
Part Six: Arlington, 1994–2007
Chapter 75. Final Relocation
Chapter 76. Dad Departs
Chapter 77. Decline
Chapter 78. Maternal Vignettes
Chapter 79. Eulogy
Epilogue