My German Question

By Gay, Peter
Yale University Press, 1999, Paperback, 224 pp., ISBN: 0300080700, $14.95

In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, antireligious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939.

Peter Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner. In so doing he provides a curiously neglected perspective to the history of German Jewry. From the publisher