Last Monday was the birthday of my dad, Leonard Gross. He would have been 97.
When he turned 87, his book, The Last Jews in Berlin, which had recently been republished by Open Road Media, became a bestseller. He died two days later, and we didn’t get the news about the book climbing the charts until the day after that. Talk about bittersweet.
Dad may not have known about his book’s resurgent popularity, but he was thrilled that The Last Jews in Berlin had been thrust back into the limelight. Now, a decade later, the New York Times bestseller has never been more relevant.
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