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Schlepping Through the Alps - Sam Apple

Description: ISBN 0345477731 / Genre: Travel / Author: Sam Apple / Paperback / 304 Pages / Book is published 2006-03-28 by Ballantine Books

Newest Review: ... Jewish life shaped mainly by his grandmother who cared for him when he grew up in Houston. Her world was divided into 'us' ... more

... (Jews) and 'them' (Gentiles), but Sam never actually suffered from anti-Semitism in the USA. 45-year-old Hans Breuer, on the other hand, is a one-of-a kind eccentric. He's married with three sons, shepherds regularly with his wife and occasionally with his mistress. He grew up in Vienna as the child of communist parents (a Jewish father and a Gentile mother). He was a member of the communist faction Spartacus and later, after extensive travelling through Europe, became a wandering shepherd meaning that he's never in one...more

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Schlepping Through the Alps - Sam Apple: Shlepping Sheep (1174 words)
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From the dictionary: also: schlepp, shlep, shlepp. American slang 1. to carry, to lug something 2. to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously Origin: (1920-25), from German schleppen via Yiddish. Yiddish shlepn: to pull, drag The title together with the cover showing a sheep with a pipe* in its mouth suggest that an American Jew schleps sheep through the Alps, a European mountain range. Why would he do that? The book belongs to the genre travelogue, it's a biographical account of a trip interspersed with reflections on history and politics. The subheading clarifies what the author's concern is: My Search for Austria's Jewish ... Read the complete review