by Herman Wouk · Albrecht Knaus Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783813501445
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«Der Enkel des Rabbi» is the historical novel by Herman Wouk, published by Albrecht Knaus Verlag in hardcover (736 pages, in German).
The novel follows Goodkind, a Jewish lawyer of Russian origin in New York and special assistant at the White House during the Watergate scandal. From his present, he narrates, with humor and irony, his personal rise and the fate of his Jewish ancestors in Minsk since 1900.
Herman Wouk's English original is titled «Inside, Outside»; this 1985 German edition was translated by Anita Krätzer and Helmut Kossodo.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas, with an interest in twentieth-century Jewish culture.
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
