Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town"This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." -- Hadassah Magazine "In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey... will reward readers of all faiths." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A powerful and unusually eloquent memoir of a prominent Austrian Holocaust survivor invited back to face... old ghosts and demons.... An intelligent and profound memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews David Weiss is an eminent biomedical scientist, now living in Israel. But in 1938 he was an 11-year-old boy in Austria who dramatically escaped the Nazis with his family. For some 56 years Weiss held a deep and abiding enmity for everything Austrian and German. Reluctant Return is his account of his emotional return to his hometown of Wiener Neustadt, the remarkable Christian group that brought it about, and the visit's surprising echoes and consequences. |
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... Eiwens are in Jerusalem right now , at an assembly of European Freikirchen . They and their people come frequently to demonstrate support and to volun- teer . Are you willing to talk with him ? He is reluctant to call you direct- ly ...
... Eiwen rings . The brief conversation is long enough to persuade me to meet him . I ask the Eiwens to join us for Sabbath eve dinner that Friday night in our home . The meal together turns out to be the beginning of a remarkable and ...
... Eiwens are overwhelmingly absorbed in a mission . That is to regain for themselves , for their community and town , and for all Chris- tianity the favor of God . They are deeply , wholly committed Christians . They accept Jesus of ...
... Eiwens ascribe the " empty , godless secularism " of the region to the withdrawal of God's presence , and they are dedicated to lifting the curse . But that cannot be accomplished by Christians alone . The channel to grace regained can ...
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Contents
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Ulis Visions | 8 |
Return? Nunc Mas | 12 |
Guardian Angel as Starshina | 19 |
Roots and Specters | 25 |
The Tactics of Remembrance | 33 |
Encounter at the Holyland | 39 |
Wiener Neustadt March 1938 and Escape | 68 |
Berkeley to Jerusalem | 86 |
Pater Johannes Vrbecky | 96 |
Hillel and Yair Sign On | 102 |
Wiener Neustadt May 1995 | 110 |
What the Pastor of Ichthys Has Caught in His Net | 181 |
When One Stands Face to Face | 188 |
A Thousand Years in a BloodStained Land | 63 |