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The romantic Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn's unusual life takes him from 1890s Vienna where he is in love with a patient of Dr. Freud, into the Esperanto movement, and, ultimately, to the Warsaw Ghetto.
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I fell in love with Emma Eckstein the moment I saw her from the fourth gallery of the Carl Theater, and this was also the night I met Sigmund Freud.” So goes the life, times, and loves of Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, a fairly incurable romantic venturing optimistically through modern history. In this inventive and satiric tour de force, Joseph Skibell, award-winning author of A Blessing on the Moon, presents a picaresque novel of exile that could spring only from the imagination of a virtuoso.
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