What Is Ironic About Beer By Edith Hahn Beer Book Summary

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Edith Hahn Beer was a smart, brilliant girl. Her teacher recommended her father to take her to high school and even college, which in the 1920’s it was very rare to see a girl do. She studied at the University of Vienna, were she was studying law. She could not receive her PhD because the Nazi would not let her take her final exam to graduate. Edith Hahn Beer published one autobiography about her life. She released the autobiography in 1999. This book is a New York Times Bestseller.
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A true story based on Edith Hahn Beer life. She grew up in Vienna as a Jewish girl. She was a brilliant student and her teacher recommended her dad to further her education. In the 1930 she went to law school and when she went to take her final test the Nazi would not let her therefore she did not finished her education. Edith and her family got sent to the projects, there they received their papers but with the letter “J” on them. She tried to flee the country with her boyfriend Pepi …show more content…

It also talks about all the difficulties that she had to overcome like how her father would not let her marry a Christian boy to how she had to change her identity to survive the terrible era of the Holocaust. Even though it is a long book I believe that it is worth the time to read it because while reading it, this takes you back in time and makes you see the terrible things people like Edith which was a middle class Jew who did not really practiced the religion went thru just because the religion that they had. It also shows some situations that people had during that time like Edith that had to take another identity and almost forgot of her own. This also shows how in Austria (where she lived) people believed that Jews were not considered as good as everybody else, and how her father constantly waned her and her family to be almost always

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