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Ten Green Bottles

The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

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Ten Green Bottles

The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

Ten Green Bottles is the story of Nini Karpel's struggles as she told it to her daughter Vivian Jeanette Kaplan so many years ago. This true story depicts the fierce perseverance of one family, victims of the forces of evil, who overcame suffering of biblical proportion to survive. It was a time when ordinary people became heroes. To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffee houses, she cherished the city of her birth. But in the 1930s an undercurrent of conflict and hate began to seize the former imperial capital. This struggle came to a head when Hitler took possession of neighboring Germany. Anti-Semitism, which Nini and her idealistic friends believed was impossible in the socially advanced world of Vienna, became widespread and virulent. The Karpel's Jewish identity suddenly made them foreigners in their own homeland. Tormented, disenfranchised, and with a broken heart, Nini and her family sought refuge in a land seven thousand miles across the world. Shanghai, China, one of the few countries accepting Jewish immigrants, became their new home and refuge. Stepping off the boat, the Karpel family found themselves in a land they could never have imagined. Shanghai presented an incongruent world of immense wealth and privilege for some and poverty for the masses, with opium dens and decadent clubs as well as rampant disease and a raging war between nations.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466829206

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9781466829206

Blind Vision

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

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Blind Vision

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

In modern day Mexico City, a young graduate student of anthropology, Stefan Marquez Calle, hears a surprising confession from his dying aunt. Her revelation sends him on a journey of discovery that flings him backwards in time to fifteenth century Spain. He finds his own life entangled with that of Alfonso Calle, an ancestor immersed in a quest for religious survival within the intrigue of an underground world. Stefan is drawn into the terrifying realm of the Spanish Inquisition, of brutal torture and burning at the stake of living human beings. In ancient palaces, where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella rule, black hooded Dominican monks plot murderous schemes in an effort to destroy all vestiges of beleaguered Judaism. Within the same corridors of power, Christopher Columbus, an ambitious explorer, makes harried appeals to the monarchs for help to launch his voyage. How the lives of Stefan and Alfonso, the two central protagonists, are intertwined and the outcome that even today affects many thousands of people, is the essence of this gripping story.

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0983731829

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9780983731825

Ten Green Bottles

The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

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Ten Green Bottles

The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffee houses, she cherished the city of her birth. But in the 1930s an undercurrent of conflict and hate began to seize the former imperial capital. This struggle came to a head when Hitler took possession of neighboring Germany. Anti-Semitism, which Nini and her idealistic friends believed was impossible in the socially advanced world of Vienna, became widespread and virulent. The Karpel's Jewish identity suddenly made them foreigners in their own homeland. Tormented, disenfranchised, and with a broken heart, Nini and her family sought refuge in a land seven thousand miles across the world. Shanghai, China, one of the few countries accepting Jewish immigrants, became their new home and refuge. Stepping off the boat, the Karpel family found themselves in a land they could never have imagined. Shanghai presented an incongruent world of immense wealth and privilege for some and poverty for the masses, with opium dens and decadent clubs as well as rampant disease and a raging war between nations. Ten Green Bottles is the story of Nini Karpel's struggles as she told it to her daughter Vivian so many years ago. This true story depicts the fierce perseverance of one family, victims of the forces of evil, who overcame suffering of biblical proportion to survive. It was a time when ordinary people became heroes.

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Macmillan

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0312330545

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9780312330545

Ten Green Bottles

Vienna to Shanghai : Journey of Fear and Hope

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

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Ten Green Bottles

Vienna to Shanghai : Journey of Fear and Hope

By: Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

To Nini Karpel, her Vienna of the 1920s and '30s seemed a romantic confection, but the undercurrents of conflict and hate in the former imperial capital surfaced when Hitler took power in neighbouring Germany. Anti-Semitism, which Nini and her friends believed had disappeared from socially advanced Vienna, became widespread. The Karpels and the other Jews were tormented and disenfranchised. Heartbroken at leaving the city they loved, Nini and her family sought refuge in Shanghai, one of the few places that would accept Jewish refugees. They found themselves in another world, of opium dens and decadent clubs in the midst of a war raging between China and Japan. "Ten Green Bottles" is told by Nini's daughter Vivian Jeanette Kaplan through the eyes of her mother. It is a true story about the fierce perseverance of one family, who overcame sufferings of biblical proportions.

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Virago Press

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1896941311

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9781896941318

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