Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town

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Indiana University Press, 1999 M07 22 - 208 páginas

"This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." -- Hadassah Magazine

"In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey... will reward readers of all faiths." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A powerful and unusually eloquent memoir of a prominent Austrian Holocaust survivor invited back to face... old ghosts and demons.... An intelligent and profound memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews

David Weiss is an eminent biomedical scientist, now living in Israel. But in 1938 he was an 11-year-old boy in Austria who dramatically escaped the Nazis with his family. For some 56 years Weiss held a deep and abiding enmity for everything Austrian and German. Reluctant Return is his account of his emotional return to his hometown of Wiener Neustadt, the remarkable Christian group that brought it about, and the visit's surprising echoes and consequences.

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A Call from Helmuth Eiwen
1
A Mission
4
Ulis Visions
8
Return? Nunc Mas
12
Guardian Angel as Starshina
19
Roots and Specters
25
The Tactics of Remembrance
33
Encounter at the Holyland
39
Wiener Neustadt March 1938 and Escape
68
Berkeley to Jerusalem
86
Pater Johannes Vrbecky
96
Hillel and Yair Sign On
102
Wiener Neustadt May 1995
110
What the Pastor of Ichthys Has Caught in His Net
181
When One Stands Face to Face
188
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A Thousand Years in a BloodStained Land
63

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Born to an old and distinguished Jewish family in Austria, David W. Weiss fled as a child with his parents and sister from Nazi persecution, reaching the United States in 1939. He earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at Rutgers University and a D. Phil. in medicine from Oxford University. A former professor of bacteriology and immunology at the University of California Berkeley, in 1966 he immigrated to Israel, where he founded and directed the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition to numerous publications in biomedical science, Weiss is the author of works on Jewish law and philosophy, including The Wings of the Dove: Jewish Values, Science, and Halachah.

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