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Silence Not, A Love Story - Price: $17.95
by Cynthia L. Coper, ISBN: 9 78098 1 990606
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Durnig an economic crisis in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s an idealistic young Jewish Woman involved in the labor movement in Hamburg joins with a rebellious Catholic artisan to resist the rise of Nazisn at the same time deepening their love for humanity and each other. Drawn from the true stories of Gisa Peiper and Paul Konopka, this is a story of courage and love that thrives despite the dangers, and tells of the hope and art, of speaking out for the highest human values in the most pressing of times.
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Biography :
Cynthia L. Cooper is an award-winning playwrght, journalist and author. She writes about woman issues and human rights. As a playwright, Cooper's works have been produced in New York, throughout the United States, Cananda and Europe. As a two-time Jerome Fellow, she has written 16 additional plays and six nonfiction books, in addition to numerous articles.
Book Review :
A new genre of works have emerged over the past seveal years, stories of resistance to the Nazi regimeand of the strugglesot maintain one,s dignity and decencyin the wake of a totalitarian regime bent on the destruction of segments of the populations including the Jews. This powerful play recreates in moving drama those struggles and the desperate attempt of goods people to remain moral in the most immoral of scieties. Powerful, poignant and penetrating, it will move those who read it and cause them to ponder the sources of couraqe and resistance.
Michael Berenbaum
Professor Jewish Studies
American Jewish University
Los Angeles, California
Cynthia Cooper's SILENCE NOT, A LOVE STORY, a riviting coming of age story in play format is more that JUST a love story or JUST another chapter in the history of the anti-Nazi movement. In this refreshing story-telling format, Cooper offers a simple call to arms to those who view the glass half full, and the mountains too steep. Gisa Peiper, the central character of SILENCE NOT, A LOVE STORY, is young, naive and passionate. Her courage entralls us, dares us. Coooper's story is a story of courage, for all ages, all sexes, all cultures--reminding us, that courage sees no boundries.
Janis F. Kearney, former Personal Diarist to President Willian J. Clinton. Author, COTTON FIELD OF DREANS: A MEMOIR; and SOMETHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT: MEMORIES FROM A PRESIDENTIAL DIARIST
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