"Intimate and scholarly... Patient readers will be rewarded. An encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich Vienna and an ode to midcentury modernism."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"This jewel should not be called a book but a museum."
-- Will Semler, author (Melbourne, Australia)

"One of the more uplifting accounts of European emigre life that I have read in a long time.... It will touch you to tears right away, regardless of how many accounts of similar fates you believe to have studied and understood.... What a book "
-- Volker M. Welter, author and...