Vivid and fascinating, Stranger in My Own Country traces the contours of Jewish life in a country still struggling with the legacy of the Third Reich and portrays those who, inevitably, continue to live in its shadow.
Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country's past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness he found just as alienating. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastĪs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country.
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