Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration Adaptation and Pursuits in Science and in Educational and Social Change

It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld recounts his personal and often intimate experiences a microcosm of life during a time spanning nearly a century. The seemingly stable atmosphere of his childhood in Vienna is destroyed by the Anschluss the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. The forced exodus leads him to North America first to Vancouver then to New York and a life that melds his original culture with that of his new environment creating a richness-in science and music and in intellectualand political life-that transcends both.