This is probably not the sort of book the patron has in mind, but The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse has a character, Roderick Spode, who is a spoof of Oswald Moseley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.Spode's fascist group is called the Black Shorts.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 6:50 PM Adela Peskorz via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > It's not a memoir, but in many ways it reads like one: *Hitler, My > Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939 *by Edgar > Feuchtwanger (interestingly enough, Lion Feuchtwanger's nephew) > https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-My-Neighbor-Childhood-1929-1939/dp/1590518640/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541457959&sr=1-1&keywords=hitler+my+neighbor. > Here is the description I wrote for an annotated booklist of current titles > with Jewish characters I compiled for *VOYA*, published this year in its > August issue. Hope it helps! > > "In *Hitler, My Neighbor*, Edgar Feuchtwanger had a direct view to > Hitler’s growing menace outside his bedroom window every day. The subtle > and chilling progression from the simplistic dismissal of a five-year-old > to a palpable awareness of the imminent threat living right next door > presents a dark portrait of how quickly evil can transform the familiar and > the safe. Best friends became strangers, teachers transformed into > tormentors, and walls slowly closed in for an entire family who realized > the only viable option was escape." > > Adela > -- > Adela Peskorz, M.L.S. > Professor Emerita/Community Faculty > Adolescent Literature and Information Studies > Metropolitan State University/St.Paul, MN > adela.pesk...@metrostate.edu/ pesko...@gmail.com/ > > > > > > > > > *"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up > because I wasn't a Communist; and then they came for the trade unionists, > and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist; and then they came > for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; and then…they > came for me…and by that time there was no‐one left to speak up" --Pastor > Martin Niemoller, German theologian imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps > from 1937-1945"It is never too late to be what you might > have been."--George Eliot"Wherever you are is the entry point."--Kabir"Do > not fear mistakes. There are none." --Miles Davis* > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:40 PM Erika Dreifus via Hasafran < > hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > >> Also: Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here. >> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:04 PM Eva Radding via Hasafran < >> hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: >> >>> You might also consider The Oppermanns >>> <https://www.amazon.com/Oppermanns-Novel-Lion-Feuchtwanger/dp/0786708808> >>> by Leon Feuchtwanger. >>> -- >>> Eva Radding >>> Digital Archive and Library Systems Manager >>> Facing History and Ourselves >>> 16 Hurd Road >>> Brookline, MA 02445 >>> 617-735-1680 >>> www.facinghistory.org >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> Message: 1 >>>> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 12:41:15 -0500 >>>> From: Shmuel Ben-Gad <shmu...@gwu.edu> >>>> To: "anrapp2...@yahoo.com" <anrapp2...@yahoo.com> >>>> Cc: hasafran@lists.osu.edu >>>> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Request for suggestion of novel about >>>> Fascism's rise >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <CAKgGGD0TOw5mO7rmpDMetAW1LyXK+2mTWKw=kk= >>>> 16rqkqos...@mail.gmail.com> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>>> >>>> Perhaps you will want to consider The Garden of the Finzi-Continis >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_the_Finzi-Continis >>>> >>>> I have seen the flick but not read the book. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:05 AM Andrea Rapp via Hasafran < >>>> hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> > I've been asked to suggest a novel about the rise of Fascism in >>>> Europe in >>>> > the 1930's. >>>> > Roth's The Plot Against America is finding renewed popularity, but >>>> this >>>> > request is for a historical novel rather than the genre of alternate >>>> > history. Any suggestions? >>>> > Andrea Rapp, Wise Temple Cincinnati >>>> > __ >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> *Erika Dreifus* | Writer. Poet. Publicist. 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