Mimi Schwartz's father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he'd tell her, "We all got along." In her orig

Drawing on her father's stories about his boyhood in Germany, the author looks at the history of life in one small German village before, during and after the N

"In Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited, Mimi Schwartz revisits the story of her father's German village during the Third Reich ten years after the book's initi

When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz’s life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy. Tim Parks is any