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Traveler's Guide to Jewish Germany

Name: Traveler's Guide to Jewish Germany
Author: Peter Hirsch
ISBN: 9781565542549

by Peter Hirsch, Billie A. Lopez, Billie Ann Lopez

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Overview

No country outside Israel has as many memorials to Jewish history as Germany. At least that is what the authors of Traveler's Guide To Jewish Germany, Peter Hirsch and Billie Ann Lopez, maintain. And they prove it in their book. The sites covered go from large synagogues like the ones in Augsburg, Cologne, or Berlin to the former prayer rooms which today are used as sheds. Cemeteries, baths, and exhibitions are also covered in the travel guide.

About the Author, Peter Hirsch

Peter Hirsch was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. For many years, he worked as the chief financial officer for an Austrian affiliate of a Swiss company. He met his wife and co-author, Billie Ann Lopez, in Central Park in New York City during the summer of 1981. He is an avid traveler and, in order to create his guide book, visited about three hundred cities, towns, and villages in Germany.

Though Billie Ann Lopez was born in Kansas, she loved Vienna, Austria, and devoted her life to Austrian and German culture. Having resided in Vienna for many years, friends say that she considered this Austrian city her home. She worked as a freelance writer for most of her life.

During her career, she wrote more than forty articles about Vienna, ranging from old Viennese humor to Austrian birdwatching. Some of the topics about which Lopez wrote include Austrian automobiles, holidays, customs, and Mark Twain's visit to Vienna.

Lopez died on September 13, 2003.