Word: silberstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveal their naked egos when confronted by crisis. Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...
Spectator. The story opens in 1914 with one Brosius, a high school teacher as brutal as the one in Remarque's book, bullying delicate young Leo Silberstein, a Jew. Leo serves only to provide the author with the bleak picture of a despised race. The author is likewise merely a spectator when adults talk politics; when the workers march singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting...
Some months ago, James Calisch's landlady heard her lodger in an altercation with young Silberstein. "You're a nut!" ejaculated the older man. "What reasons have you for making such a statement?" demanded the youth, with the pedantic inflection of an adolescent philosopher. "Well," began Mr. Calisch, patient once more, "in the first place-" They had been arguing about a newly-published book on Sigmund Freud. Mr. Calisch had genially called psychoanalysis "rot." Neurotic young Emanuel was furious; he took Freud as glorious gospel. After the quarrel, Mr. Calisch, annoyed by his voluble visitor, told the landlady...
...evening last week, Mr. Calisch sat at his usual table in his usual cafeteria. In came a slender figure in a serge coat and grey "bellbottom" trousers, with a cap pulled so far down over the cadaverous face that only the high hooked nose of Emanuel Silberstein showed out from beneath. Moving up behind his old tutor, the youth raised a squat hammer (a cobbler's) and beat upon the bowed white skull. James Calisch was unconscious, his cranium crushed beyond repair, before other patrons could seize Student Silberstein...
...police asked Emanuel Silberstein his occupation. "Selling wine to Negroes," he answered, smiling. He told them he was glad he had "done the job well." They found cyanide of potassium in his pocket and again he said he was glad that he had killed "the old man" instead of himself...