A Curable Romantic

By Joseph Skibell

Subjects: Fiction, jewish, Vienna (austria), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction, Warsaw (poland), fiction, Fiction, biographical

Description: When Dr. Jakob Josef Sammelsohn arrives in Vienna in the 1890s, he happens to meet Sigmund Freud, has a series of affairs, is haunted by the ghost of his abandoned wife, and eventually ends up in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. His Candide-like adventures illuminate a Europe moving between a new scientific age and age-old superstitions and beliefs.