Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. A son of Holocaust survivors, haunted by his parents' suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, he was certain that Germany was one place in the world he would never visit. Those feelings shaped his Jewish and gay identity, his life, and his career. Then the barriers of a lifetime began to come down, as revealed in this moving memoir. After his mother's death, while researching her war years, Raphael found a distant relative living in the very city where she had been a slave laborer. What would he learn if he actually traveled to the place where his mother had found freedom and met his father? Not long after that epochal trip, a German publisher bought several of his books for translation. Raphael was launched on book tours in Germany, discovering not so much a new Germany, but a new self: someone unafraid to face the past and transcend it.

My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped

Biographies & Memoirs

Raphael, Lev

Historical

University of Wisconsin Press

Haunted by his parents’ horrific suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. Those feelings shaped his Jewish identity, his life, and his career. While researching his mother’s war years after her death, he discovers a distant relative living in the very city where she had worked in a slave labor camp, found freedom, and met his father. Soon after, Raphael is launched on book tours in Germany and, in the process, redefines himself as someone unafraid to face the past and let it go.
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Successful professor Nick Hoffman finds his secure, happy, college-town life changed forever after a nightmarish encounter with police. But even when that horrible night is over, life doesn't return to normal. Someone is clearly out to destroy him. Nick and his partner Stefan Borowski face an escalating series of threats that lead to a brutal and stunning confrontation. A novel of suspense set in the academic world, Assault with a Deadly Lie probes the disturbing psychological impact of slander, harassment, stalking, police brutality, and the loss of personal safety. What will Nick do when his world threatens to collapse? How can he reestablish order in a suddenly chaotic life? Assault with a Deadly Lie, the eighth installment of Lev Raphael's Nick Hoffman Mysteries, propels the series to a new level of danger and intrigue as Nick and Stefan are catapulted out of their tranquil existence by shocking accusations. Finalist, Midwest Book Award for Mystery/Thriller Fiction, Midwest Independent Publishers Association “A riveting great read for mystery/suspense fans, author Lev Raphael once again documents his impressive gifts as a storyteller, holding the reader’s rapt attention from beginning to end with unexpected plot twists and surprise twists.”—Jack Mason, Midwest Book Review “Raphael portrays with frightening power the wrenching experience of victimization by the corporatized, PR-prioritized groves of academia, where both men teach, and by local authorities militarized into SWAT teams practicing police brutality. . . . The compelling core of this unusual novel is Raphael’s depiction of the agonizing reality of victims’ shame, in which someone ‘feels doubly exposed talking about the violation’ and so says nothing.”—Booklist “Professor Nick Hoffman learns that even tenure can’t guarantee real security.”—Kirkus Reviews

Assault with a Deadly Lie: A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense

Literature & Fiction

Dancing on Tisha B'av

Dancing on Tisha b'Av

St.Martin's Press

Short Stories & Anthologies

St. Martin's: Griffin

As the American-born son of the immigrant Borowski family, Stefan grows from a small boy, lost in magic and fears, to a detached hungry adolescent, to a lonely young man on the verge of self-discovery.

Winter Eyes

United States

St Martins Pr

A haunting and remarkable novel, Winter Eyes is a tale of family secrets, silence, relevation-and the hope for healing and change. A spell-binding achievement, Winter Eyes richly fulfills the promise Booklist saw when it hailed Dancing on Tisha B'av as the debut of "a bright new talent in American fiction."

Beneath its calm surface, controversy rages at the State University of Michigan. An outsider, Perry Cross, has been brought in to fill a quickly created tenure-track teaching position, a situation that fellow professor Nick Hoffman finds suspicious. But when Nick discovers that his longtime lover, writer Stefan Borowski, shares a past with Cross, Nick's curiosity about Cross begins to verge on obsession. Things only get worse when Cross is found murdered and Nick's jealous behavior and Stefan's past make them both prime suspects. To clear both their names and resolve the questions surrounding the mysterious Cross, Nick investigates the murder, uncovering unpleasant secrets about his coworkers, superiors, and the university itself. As Nick attempts to unravel the mystery, his suspicions alarmingly turn close to home, and his own life is endangered.

Let's Get Criminal: An Academic Mystery

A tale of intrigue in academia involving homosexuals. It begins when a new man arrives at a university and obtains tenure despite lack of qualifications. When he is murdered, suspicion falls on a writer-in-residence on whom the man once did the dirty. Nick Hoffman, the writer's friend, tries to clear his name by finding the real killer.When the mysterious Perry Cross is hired to fill a quickly created position at the state university of Michigan, teacher Nick Hoffman learns that his lover, writer Stefan Browski, shared a past with Cross, who is murdered shortly thereafter

An academic conference on Edith Wharton is already in trouble due to warring Wharton factions when the murder of lesbian writer Chloe DeVore makes things even more complicated, and gay professor Nick Hoffman must discover who killed her before everything unravels.

The Edith Wharton Murders: A Nick Hoffman Mystery

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My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped

My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped

Assault with a Deadly Lie: A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense

Dancing on Tisha b'Av

Dancing on Tisha B'av

Winter Eyes

Winter Eyes

Let's Get Criminal: An Academic Mystery

Let's Get Criminal: An Academic Mystery

The Edith Wharton Murders: A Nick Hoffman Mystery