Comments on: Review: Good Neighbors, Bad Times http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/ Jewish books, literature and poetry. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steve Pollakhttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-98 Steve Pollak Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:31:22 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-98 thanks for your thoughts, Bill. as you may expect, i disagree.barak, thanks for writing. i think it would have been a good book if the author would have put everything out there and not changed place and people names. thanks for your thoughts, Bill. as you may expect, i disagree.

barak, thanks for writing. i think it would have been a good book if the author would have put everything out there and not changed place and people names.

]]> By: Barak Fravasihttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-97 Barak Fravasi Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:58:21 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-97 I've just finished Schwartz' book and think you're right about the book's irritating weakness. Knowing that the village is Rexingen, however -- and anyone 40 or younger could and would do the Google search you suggest, the photo credits offering only the most obvious clues -- only calls further attention to a problem with this kind of memoir: narcissism. Schwartz' self-indulgence here is on par with the sorts of autobiographical reflections one hears on "This American Life", and while the style may be entertaining when the subject is going to the grocery store (etc.) it becomes perverse when the subject is Germany during WWII. I’ve just finished Schwartz’ book and think you’re right about the book’s irritating weakness. Knowing that the village is Rexingen, however — and anyone 40 or younger could and would do the Google search you suggest, the photo credits offering only the most obvious clues — only calls further attention to a problem with this kind of memoir: narcissism. Schwartz’ self-indulgence here is on par with the sorts of autobiographical reflections one hears on “This American Life”, and while the style may be entertaining when the subject is going to the grocery store (etc.) it becomes perverse when the subject is Germany during WWII.

]]> By: Billhttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-96 Bill Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:23:11 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-96 Ms Schwartz may have recieved little help if she warned that names would be used. I think that she did well. Ms Schwartz may have recieved little help if she warned that names would be used. I think that she did well.

]]> By: Steve Pollakhttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-95 Steve Pollak Thu, 08 May 2008 10:58:46 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-95 thank you, andre. i appreciate you reading it. thank you, andre. i appreciate you reading it.

]]> By: Andrehttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-94 Andre Thu, 08 May 2008 07:07:21 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-94 Nice review, thanks. Nice review, thanks.

]]> By: Steve Pollakhttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-93 Steve Pollak Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:22:10 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-93 thanks, JewWishes. thanks, JewWishes.

]]> By: JewWisheshttp://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/04/review-good-neighbors-bad-times/#comment-92 JewWishes Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:50:26 +0000 /post/Review-Good-Neighbors-Bad-Times.aspx#comment-92 Good review, Steve, and from what you wrote, I'm befuddled at Schwartz's tactics, also. Good review, Steve, and from what you wrote, I’m befuddled at Schwartz’s tactics, also.

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