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A high-ranking Nazi’s wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time just as terrorists massacre Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and the family secrets modern technology may reveal. These are some of the characters and conflicts that emerge in Quiet Americans, in stories that reframe familiar questions about what is right and wrong, remembered and repressed, resolved and unending. Portions of the proceeds from sales of Quiet Americans are being donated to The Blue Card. Quiet Americans has been named a 2012 Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title (American Library Association) and recognized as a “Notable Book” (The Jewish Journal) and “Top Book” (Shelf Unbound).
re: the 100 book list
I am surprised to see more than a few names here that I would not
say are Jewish. What’s the qualification here? Jewish topic of the book?
A distant Jewish relative? A Jewish parent even though the writer was not
raised Jewish? Very confusing!
Well, I think the article acknowledges that the list represents a mélange of conceptions of “Jewish.”