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July 16, 2024

The Man Who Foresaw the Rise of German Anti-Semitism

And how he became a reluctant Zionist.

In his book Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, Daniel Finkelstein tells the story of how both his mother’s and father’s family survived the vicissitudes of World War II as European Jews. Among them is Finkelstein’s maternal grandfather, a German-Jewish scholar born in Potsdam in 1885 named Alfred Wiener. Allan Arkush writes in his review:

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July 16, 2024

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