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...others run a small electrical appliances shop, and Johann Jakob Astor is a retired cop. All of them, and about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed...
...student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German Christian mystics Jakob Boehme, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa...
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...