"First published in 1934, yet fully imagining the destiny of Germany over the ensuing years, this uncannily prophetic novel casts the Oppermanns - a German Jewish family that for three generations has owned several successful furniture stores in cosmopolitan Berlin - against the backdrop of surging Nazi power.".

"The past and the future meet in this masterful saga of the Oppermanns. It is the mid 1930s in the world of Feuchtwanger's novel, a time when emancipated German Jews like the Oppermanns are forced to confront old fears as they face a new threat. For incendiaries in brown shirts have taken over Berlin's streets.

Their propaganda jams the radio, and along with their swastikas, fascist salutes, and zealous hymns come not just discrimination and deceit but a nationalized hatred, the betrayal of a race, and a tragedy that history has proved to be as true for Germany as for the Oppermanns of this profoundly moving tale."--BOOK JACKET.