All About Eva; A Holocaust-Related Memoir, with a Hollywood Twist

"All About Eva is a madcap, yet also tragically serious, genre-defying story of a Jewish couple’s flight from Nazi Germany to Los Angeles. Sumptuously illustrated, it is a saga of betrayal, intra-Jewish tension, imprisonment, eroticism, and salty, delicious gossip. It ultimately provides a painful yet also rollicking picture of old worlds destroyed and new ones in the making."
\nSteven E. Aschheim
\nauthor of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923 "What makes this Holocaust survivor tale so fascinating is its focus on a love triangle among three Jewish émigrés: the author’s German parents, Rudy and Eva, and Polish actor Alexander Granach. Along the way, we encounter a remarkable array of their friends and clients in Los Angeles: Fritz Lang, Salka Viertel, Lion Feuchtwanger, Peter Lorre, Robert Ryan, Judy Garland, and George and Ira Gershwin. It’s a story too amazing to be true, but it is!"
\nSteven J. Ross
\nauthor of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America "Vincent Brook’s considerable film knowledge takes a personal turn in this candid and affecting memoir of his parents, whose tale of escape from Nazified Berlin to Los Angeles illustrates the challenges faced by Hollywood’s German-speaking émigré community in the late 1930s and beyond."
\nDonna Rifkind
\nauthor of The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood

Publisher:

Gefen Publishing House

Pages:

184

Date Published:

2021-06-18