Pushing Time Away by Peter Singer
Pushing Time Away by Peter Singer
Pushing Time Away
My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
by Peter Singer
Fourth Estate, 2003, ISBN 0732277434, C-format paperback
Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, un-creased spine, no inscriptions (see photographs)
'What binds us, pushes time away ... wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905.
Oppenheim, classical scholar, Austro-Hungarian army war veteran, one-time member of Sigmund Freud's Wednesday Group, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, played a minor role in the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Vienna. Across town, a failed art student making money from painting postcard watercolours would also make his mark on the city, but that would come much later, and with catastrophic consequences.'