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Article: Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad.(Book review)
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- American Jewish History
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- September 1, 2007
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Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. By Steven E. Aschheim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. ix + 194 pp.
Let us reverse for a moment Philip Roth's vision that America had turned fascist and that, as a consequence, Hitler had won the war. Imagine instead that he would have been overthrown by his fellow Germans before he had the chance to launch the war and the genocide against European Jewry. Just as Anne Frank might be writing romantic novels in Frankfurt, Salman Schocken might have continued to sell clothes in even more department stores designed by Erich Mendelsohn, and the Jewish team Hakoah Vienna might have won a few more Austrian ...