#effingers

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These people deny that we have the right to live in Germany. And besides that, Zionism represents a rejection of everything we believe in. There were many things I objected to in Emmanuel, your grandfather. I felt he was too conciliatory, too eager to cater to all sides. But he once put his life, his freedom, and his reputation on the line for an idea. Like us, he fought on two fronts: against his Jewish brethren who were behind the times, and for equal rights for Jews. Did your grandfather ever tell you how he saw excited young Germans kick the gates of the ghetto and open them for good?

Effingers by Gabriele Tergit, English translation by Sophie Duvernoy

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Gabrielle Tergit's Effingers (Book acquired, 18 Oct. 2025)

  Gabriele Tergit’s 1951 novel Effingers is out in its first published English translation, by Sophie Duvernoy, from publisher NYRB. From Sandra Lipner’s English-language review of the novel (Lipner is reviewing the original German edition; she concludes the 2020 review by wishing for an English translation): Tergit writes as both novelist and historian. Her protagonists are complex and so…

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Gabriele Tergit: Effingers

Gabriele Tergit: „Effingers“, das ist ein gewaltiger Familienroman, ein deutsches Epos, ein Generationenbuch, ein Berlinroman, lebendige Geschichtsschreibung am Beispiel zweier fiktiver Familien.

„(…) Ben ist Engländer. Er hat sich naturalisieren lassen.“ „Das finde ich aber merkwürdig. Ich war doch schließlich ein politischer Emigrant und habe meinen Weg in Frankreich gemacht, aber ich bin nie auf die Idee gekommen, ich könnte mich naturalisieren lassen, trotzdem ich die herrlichen Jahre des zweiten Kaiserreichs dort verlebte.“ „Wir fanden das auch merkwürdig von Ben, aber Ben hat in Bezug…

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