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Eavesdropping in Oberammergau presents the lives of two families--a Jewish-American military family and a German family--plus a character derived from a true story who meet in Oberammergau, Germany, in the years immediately following World War II. The novel knits together the friendship between the families' eleven-year- old daughters, the eavesdropping Alison and Trudy, and Stefan Hirsch, the novel's hero.
Oberammergau is no ordinary Bavarian village--it is the home of the world-famous Passion Play, drawing millions of visitors to view the drama of the last days of Jesus. Generations of the townspeople have been transforming themselves into the saints and villains of the Biblical story every ten years for four centuries.
Author Hilary Salk has fictionalized her experience of living in Oberammergau, the only child of a Jewish American military officer, to impart the reality of life in this village full of make-believe.
Fifty years after she attended The Passion Play in 1950, Salk learned about the efforts by Jewish organizations to counteract the blatant anti-Semitism in The Play, and its links to Nazi hatred. Her research also led her to discover the story of a man that became the inspiration for her novel.
Renamed Stefan Hirsch in her book, Salk created a past, present, and future based on these bare truths about his real-life counterpart:
About the Author: As the only child of a Jewish American military family, Hilary Salk moved from place to place in the US and overseas. Like the young eavesdropper in her novel, Eavesdropping in Oberamamergau: An Understory, she lived in post-World War II Oberammergau, Germany, from 1949-1952, just as the villagers began immersing themselves in their parts as Biblical characters in the 1950 The Passion Play. She is a graduate of Brown University and earned an MAT in English and an MSW from RI College. She has written two other novels (unpublished), has contributed to an early edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and has a short story published in The Jewish Women's Literary Annual 2011. She has begun to imagine a sequel to this book. In addition to her writing, Hilary founded the RI Women's Health Collective, ran for governor of Rhode Island in 1982, and served as the broker for Salk Real Estate, Providence, Rhode Island, for 25 years.
Title: Eavesdropping in Oberammergau
Publisher: Hilary R. Salk/Ri Writer
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
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