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Author · 2003
Pushing Time Away
My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
A family history reconstructing the life of Singer’s grandfather David Oppenheim in Vienna and his death during the Holocaust.
By Peter Singer.
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 266
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 2015 edition
- ISBN
- 9781504005081
- Formats
- Ebook
About the book
Pushing Time Away tells the story of David Oppenheim, a teacher of Greek and Latin who knew Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Peter Singer draws on family letters and papers to explore his grandfather’s intellectual and personal life.
The narrative follows Oppenheim and his family through a changing Vienna, war, antisemitism and persecution. It combines biography and historical inquiry with Singer’s attempt to recover an individual life from the destruction of the Holocaust.
Key ideas
- Family memory and the recovery of an individual life
- Jewish Vienna and the development of psychoanalysis
- Historical upheaval, persecution and the Holocaust
Reviews & responses
“beautifully written and deeply moving”
Joyce Carol Oates — quoted in the publisher description on Google Books
About this edition
The publication details above refer to the 2015 edition identified by ISBN 9781504005081. The work was first published in 2003. Other editions may have different page counts, formats and ISBNs.
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