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Book SynopsisEdgar and Brigitte is a consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding. Based on personal insights into the lives of her parents and grandparents, Rosemarie Bodenheimer reconstructs the experience of German Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century America.
Trade Review“
Edgar and Brigitte presents a multifaceted look back at the German origins of two Jewish families and their relatives, friends, and professional colleagues. Based on letters and diary entries, Rosemarie Bodenheimer retraces the early emigration of her mother’s and father’s families to the United States and describes how they adapted and put down roots in their new home country.”
—Tobias Brinkmann, editor of
Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain, 1880–1914|“This sensitive, well-written consideration of Edgar and Brigitte’s lives allows the reader insight into this family and their relationship to twentieth-century historical events.”
—Kirsten Fermaglich, author of
American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965
