| Description |
262 pages : map ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Bus plunge -- The Kramah! The Kramah! -- Roadkill -- Stalin's syringe, lucky Jews, and a Warsaw cowboy -- Google "Polish bus rash" -- Empathy party -- Revenge of the Kraków soup-cougher -- Get Carter -- A brief digression ("Meet the Jewgina!" -- Comfortable shoes -- The maw of the oven -- Unworthy -- Trauma nosh -- An annoying and self-righteous ogre -- Restaurant hangman -- Munich -- Bear pit -- Jedem das Seine -- How can the dead respect the living? -- Walking into glass -- In Nazi times -- Judgmental at Nuremberg -- Dachau blues -- With apologies to Mrs. Thorne -- Stanley Manly -- Stepping on the faces of the dead -- The mortal agony -- Compassion portal. |
| Summary |
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling -- out-of-control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States -- would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus. |
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Stahl, Jerry -- Travel -- Germany.
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Stahl, Jerry -- Travel -- Poland.
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Depressed persons.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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Nazi concentration camps -- Germany.
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Nazi concentration camps -- Poland.
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Stahl, Jerry. (OCoLC)fst00342990
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Depressed persons. (OCoLC)fst00890902
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Nazi concentration camps. (OCoLC)fst02025836
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Genre/Form |
Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
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Travel writing.
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| ISBN |
9781636140254 hardcover |
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1636140254 hardcover |
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