{"product_id":"9781504005081","title":"Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis account of a teacher in Austria—a friend of Freud and one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust—is “beautifully written and deeply moving” (Joyce Carol Oates).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter Singer’s \u003ci\u003ePushing Time Away \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich and loving portrait of the author’s grandfather, David Oppenheim, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his life in a concentration camp during the Second World War. Oppenheim, a Jewish teacher of Greek and Latin living in Vienna, was a contemporary and friend of both Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. With his wife, Amalie, one of the first women to graduate in math and physics from the University of Vienna, he witnessed the waning days of the Hapsburg Empire, the nascence of psychoanalysis, the grueling years of the First World War, and the rise of anti-Semitism and Nazism.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Told partly through Oppenheim’s personal papers, including letters to and from his wife and children, \u003ci\u003ePushing Time Away \u003c\/i\u003eblends history, anecdote, and personal investigation to pull the story of one extraordinary life out of the millions lost to the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A contemporary philosopher known for such works as \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Can Save\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnimal Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e, Singer offers a true story of his own family with “all the power of a great novel . . . resonant of \u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e by Bernhard Schlink or \u003ci\u003eAn Artist of the Floating World\u003c\/i\u003e by Kazuo Ishiguro” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164299313392,"sku":"9781504005081","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504005081_p0.jpg?v=1769897468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504005081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}