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The Jump Artist - Austin Ratner
The Jump Artist
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781282488663 (128248866X)
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
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Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it
4.0 A well researched book based on a terrible travesty of justice during a terrible time of history.
The Jump Artist, Austin RatnerThis is the story of Phillip Halsmann, a Latvian Jew who, in 1929, was condemned falsely for the murder of his father while on a hiking trip in the Tyrolean Alps, in Western Austria. Convicted by a Kangaroo Court of liars and anti-Semites, not once, but twice, when they...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it
5.0
This very literary novel is based on an obscure incident in the life of renown photographer Philippe Halsmann. In 1928, Halsmann was falsely accused and tried for the murder of his father. The incident, then known as the "Austrian Dreyfus Affair" revealed a rampant Antisemitism which was only starti...
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