Book Description: In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939. Peter Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings -- then and now -- toward Germany and the Germans. His insightful account is a significant contribution to the history of German Jewry and to the art of autobiography.