- Published: 19 April 2021
- ISBN: 9781635420920
- Imprint: Other Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- RRP: $39.99
The Sun and Her Stars
Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Published: 19 April 2021
- ISBN: 9781635420920
- Imprint: Other Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- RRP: $39.99
"Rifkind sees the worldly yet unassuming Viertel as at once an extraordinary character and a telling representative of something larger than herself. She's right to...A labor of love and careful research...startling and powerful...[Rifkind's] generosity of spirit and attention to detail suit a book about this 'mother of exiles,' who was always welcoming outsiders in." --New York Times Book Review
"Moving...brilliant...[Rifkind] performs an act of spiritual as well as cultural resurrection...Like the multitudes who came to 165 Mabery Road, you'll be glad you met [Salka Viertel]." --Wall Street Journal
"Rifkind regularly takes issue with previous cultural historians who have denigrated Salka's importance as a screenwriter...Rifkind writes engagingly and often passionately...[Salka's] had been a remarkable life and she had been blessed with extraordinary friends, as Donna Rifkind again shows us." --Washington Post