This is one of the most powerful books ever written. All works of Lion Feuchtwanger deserve the special place in our history and in our hearts and this book is right on the top of it.

A Russian friend told me to buy this book..he said it was extremely popular about young Russian Jews... I found it to be a powerfully healing book for people who are in turmoil and looking for some purpose in the grand scheme of things..the book in parts is very biting,very disturbing, and at times hysterically funny..it is timeless as its characters and their exaggerated flaws applied to modern leaders..and to Jews who are striving to be non Jews..For Jews who have lost touch with their roots through their families' attempts at assimilation but who feel their Jewish soul..this book might help lessen their pain and find their purpose in living.. Bobby

Feuchtwanger is probably the best historical novelist in the world - truly superb in erudition and majestic in his literary style. While this German Jewish writer is famous for his Josephus trilogy detailing the scenes of the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, he has also written unequaled novels on Goya the artist, J.J.Rousseau the philosopher, and last but not least, on Benjamin Franklin. Jew Suss is about medieval Europe and the Jewish presence there, sometimes a very visible presense, sometimes kabbalistically hidden. A tour-de-force of the highest calibre.

I read this book for three times over my life. I read it when I was 15, than at 30 and than at 50. Every time I read it, it was better and better and better. Read it for yourself and you may feel same way.

Lion Feuchtwanger's "Goya" is a studious, extravagant and daring novel. The depth of characters and their detailed profiles enlighten the plot of the storyline whether from the sanguine and avaricious Godoy, the machiavellian and vulnerable Queen Maria Luisa de Parma or the somewhat fictionalized Duchess of Alba.

Feuchtwanger succeeds in placing the Aragonese master in the midst of a carnivorous environment, surrounded by political hyenas, religious zealots, dependent relatives, and outlandish manipulators. He draws his involvement in painting the foreground of political power, the suspicions of Queen Maria Luisa and the arrogance of Godoy.

He suspends Goya in a perilous period of Spanish and European history: the decline of the ancient regime and the advent of the Napoleonic order. He fabricates in Goya a historical witness of Madrid, Cadiz and Zaragoza, like a Robert Capa in the beaches of Normandy. There the author borrows the painter's brush to immortalize the crux of graphic scenes with his etchings and drawings, ceaselessly warding off the frustrations of deafness and its seal of social degradation, and instill hyperrealism in the vivid colors of his canvases.

It stuck me as pioneering the style employed by the author to sketch chapters based on some of Goya's most renowned paintings ("The Family of Carlos IV," "The Nude Maja," "Portrait of Godoy," and "Queen Maria Luisa Wearing a Mantilla"), albeit leaving off, arguably the finest of his masterpieces, "The Third of May." In retrospect, he makes Goya the ambassador of truth, the eye of the beholder.

this is one of the best books i've ever read .It is very educational, very romantic and phylosophycal. I'would love to read it again and vould recomend anyone who is seeking to read a hysorical roman.

In this real masterpiece Lion Feuchtwanger has incredibly successfully showed the very nature of jews and their religion. Through the book the reader can not only understand what this people feel and why they live how they do. He starts to love them, to see their tragedy, destiny, future. It's absolutely impossible to stay indifferent. The next two parts of the trilogy ("The sons" and "The day will come") accomplish the history of life of a profound historian Josephus Flavius, but personally I admire this book the most.

History of upper bavaria at the beginning ot the 20th century.

F. wrote it in the manner of a journalist of the year 2000 who was trying to get a picture of the events of these time. (written 1930!)

If you are interested to know why someone like Hitler was actually elected and finally let to WWII, this book will give you the answer.
Written by someone to whom the picture of the well-off jew of the nazi was literally minted, a son of a rich jewish banker-family in Munich, Bavaria, art-coinosseur, privatier and romancier.
F. intensly loved germany and his people but Germany of these days tried to get rid of his rich jewish heritage and F. has to leave for good, first to France and as these was growing hostile, too, to California.
F. never lost his love to bavaria and if you want to know why, and how the holocaust begun, thats your book.

If you've ever wondered how a modern, civilized country begins the slippery slope to cave-man barbaric behavior, this book is a must-read. It's an fast read too -- goes by very quickly, especially towards the end.

This book is outstanding, beautiful and skocking. It is a creation of a master.

I'm amazed this book doesn't have more glowing reader reviews as it is an absolute standout for many, many reasons, not the least of which is the author's amazing ability to predict the events to come, even before they've fully occurred! Written in 1934, the novel follows the life of one family, the Oppermanns, and the increasing restrictions and hatred they face in their daily lives. Unwilling to believe these rejections and restrictions are anything but "temporary", they are unprepared for the the way "their" community turns against them, but forced to deal with the inevitable consequences. I found this a very believable work, impossible to put down. The introduction by Ruth Gruber (she spoke with the author) helps place this work into a historical perspective.

La Judia de Toledo es una preciosa novela historica que relata la historia de amor entre el Rey de Castilla Alfoso VIII y una judia hija de uno de sus consejeros. El caracter impulsivo del rey y sus valores caballerescos tan apreciados en esa epoca llevaron a su reino a la ruina y a su amada a la muerte. La esposa legitima de Alfonso, Leonor, usa su astucia y su poder para tratar de retenerlo, manipula vidas y reinos como si fuera un juego de ajedrez. El relato de Feuchtwanger hace justicia a la rica influencia musulmana y judia durante los siglos XIV y XV. Las tramas politicas y las pasiones son tan intensas hace cinco siglos como lo son ahora. Los errores de lideres debiles eran tan costosos para el pueblo entonces como ahora.