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Lucky to Be Here

By: Herbert L. Kaufman

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Lucky To Be Here recounts the absurdity, sadness and delight of a Jewish familys life in America during the turbulent years of World War II. In Toledo, Ohio, Werner Auerbachs impressions of his new surroundings and his Americanization are related alternately through the boys diary and the narrators commentary. Uprooted by the Nazi terror from comfortable circumstances in Cologne, Germany, the family strives to blend into the environment of provincial America of the 1940s. Eight-year-old Werner and his younger sister Caroline maintain a close bond, as their parents, Gustav and Edith, struggle to rebuild their lives. Past and present are fused while memory functions as the substance of life, forming a basis for the continuity of existence. Gliding by the windows of the family car, silos, farms and fields of rural Ohio take on a surrealistic quality. In the background, lost relatives in Europe and sinister plans of the German-American Bund contrast with Werners activities. A transatlantic journey in the dangerous waters of the North Atlantic, Saturday movies, national holidays, comic books, violin instruction, Hebrew lessons, apple pie, and a paper route are interwoven with images evoked by Ediths box of photographs, a fragile testimony of their former life.

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1462834663

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Pebbles on the Stone

By: Herbert L. Kaufman

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Pebbles on the Stone

By: Herbert L. Kaufman

Through a series of bizarre events, Igor and Sabine, musicians at the Antwerp Opera, become entangled in a web of intrigue, beginning with a brutal murder in New York. While a famous conductor guides the musicians towards a new production of Tristan und Isolde, the Opera becomes the background for international espionage. Humor and irony underline the action, which moves through Flensburg, Brussels and Zrich to New York and Washington, D.C. When will it all end? Perhaps not until the source of coded signals emanating from the opera building is found. Perhaps not until Igor can place a pebble on the stone.

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320

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462834655

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Pathways

A Life's Journey

By: Herbert Kaufman

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Pathways

A Life's Journey

By: Herbert Kaufman

Autobiography, including creative prose pieces.

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314

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Lulu.com

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1411614836

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9781411614833

Armchair Cogitations

By: Herbert Kaufman

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Armchair Cogitations

By: Herbert Kaufman

Armchair Cogitations is a collection of short stories, essays, and a play, in which the author reflects upon life, including his Air Force experiences, family events, mind trips, and coming to terms with his existence as a stroke survivor.

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202

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1411653483

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9781411653481

Collected Plays for Stage and Radio

By: Herbert Kaufman

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Collected Plays for Stage and Radio

By: Herbert Kaufman

Starting with Pals, the first play in this collection, the author demonstrates a flair for the bizarre. In Simply Simon he forces the reader to suspend his disbelief, for all the cows in the village have "forgotten" how to flick their tails. Several of the plays have the Holocaust as a background, and even here Kaufman introduces personages who have a sense of humor. They all need help to make a life for themselves in the tense world we live in. Many characters and plots are reminiscent of personal experiences, although the author insists they are, to a great extent, fictitious. In Lucky To Be Here, he tells of a young boy's impressions in a midsize American city during the years of World War II-largely an account of his own growing-up as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Lifelines also has its roots in the old world. In IS 200, Kaufman comes to terms with the devastating experience of surviving a stroke. All in all, the reader will not be bored!

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1411694686

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9781411694682

Book's by Herbert L. Kaufman

Lucky to Be Here

Lucky to Be Here

Pebbles on the Stone

Pebbles on the Stone

Pathways

Pathways

Armchair Cogitations

Armchair Cogitations

Collected Plays for Stage and Radio

Collected Plays for Stage and Radio

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