"Hanussen's life is deftly told . . . Magida weaves a fascinating tapestry of 1920s Berlin." -- "The Washington Post"
"An astonishing story, brilliantly told."--Roger Moorhouse, author of "Killing Hitler"
"Magida paints a vivid tale of the era."--"City Paper"
"Hanussen (and his relation to Hitler) is one of the strangest enigmas of the pre-war era. Arthur Magida has done a great service in illuminating this figure of mystery--and the light his story reflects on the growing darkness surrounding him."--Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler" and "How the End Begins"
"The Nazi Seance is a fascinating journey into the magical thinking of Hitler and his cronies, and the life of a Jewish conjuror who tried -- and failed - the ultimate magic trick: to survive Nazi Germany as one of Hitler's own."--Stephen L. Macknik Susana Martinez-Conde, authors of "Sleights of Mind: How the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals Our Everyday Deceptions
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"In a history that reads like a novel, Arthur Magida, gives us much more than a finely written researched and well-researched examination of the "Nazi" Jewish psychic."--Lawrence Kushner, author of "Kabbalah: A Love Story
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"Magida's passion illuminates a thoroughly researched and engaging account of a momentous, sinister, and also at times tragicomic episode of German history."--Christopher Sandford, author of "Masters of Mystery: the Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini"
"Arthur Magida's haunting and vivid historical portrait illustrates how opportunism and spiritual fashion flourished on the margins of the Third Reich. It is a chilling parable about the ultimate price paid by those who blindly allied themselves with brute power."--Mitch Horowitz, author of "Occult America"
"Magida gets inside the head of the notorious Jewish clairvoyant who helped the Nazis rise to power."--Peter Lamont, author of "The First Psychic"
"Magida's narrative takes on the palpable dread of a thriller . . . "T
Książka "The Nazi Seance"
Arthur J. Magida