THE NAZI SEANCE: THE STRANGE STORY OF THE JEWISH PSYCHIC IN HITLER’S CIRCLE
Book ID/图书代码： 00500011B46782
English Summary/英文概要： Erik Jan Hannussen, a popular Jewish stage magician and mentalist from Austria, wowed audiences and amassed a small fortune in the 1920s and 30s. Perhaps his greatest trick, however, was that of becoming Hitler’s personal psychic and advisor, moving comfortably in Nazi circles for many years while hiding his Jewish heritage. But for all his supposed clairvoyance, he failed to see what awaited the Jews of Europe in the years ahead. Much too late, Hanussen realized that even he couldn’t beat Mephistopheles at his own game. The story of Hannussen, of how he operated, and how he was eventually murdered, illuminates the character and proclivities of some of the men who would go on to destroy Europe. Fascinating and disturbing, The Nazi Séance chronicles Hanussen’s rise from obscurity to fame and his unusual powers that fascinated Europe and America before he came to the same tragic end that so many of his fellow Jews endured at the hands of the Nazis.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 打入納粹核心社交圈的唯一猶太人 納粹和猶太人，在歷史上寫滿的只有歧視、血腥與壓迫
但有一位猶太人不僅人氣風靡全德國，打入納粹社交圈，
全德國高階人士都為他瘋狂，連希特勒都和他結為密友！
一次世界大戰之後，全柏林陷入混亂。許多野心勃勃的人都想趁著這一波人心惶惶的時期大撈一筆。當時的柏林民眾為超自然現象而瘋狂，處處都有人展現降靈術、讀心術、與死者溝通，其中「預測未來」是最受歡迎的超能力。
而在1930年代，最受大眾歡迎的超能力大師是Erik Jan Hannussen。他宣稱擁有預知、占星、讀心以及催眠等超能力，擁有廣大觀眾群、私人報章雜誌以及鉅額財富，與他往來的都是德國的文化精英和政府高階人士。但他最大的成就是成功隱藏自己的猶太血統，在納粹社交圈中遊刃有餘，最後還成為希特勒的私人顧問及密友。
雖然他可以預見未來，但千算萬算就是沒算到自己以及所有歐洲猶太人的悲慘下場…。在希特勒成為德國獨裁者之後，他被冠以罪名，死在之前他努力交好的納粹槍下。
本書詳述Erik Jan Hannussen這位傳奇人物的曲折故事，從他貧困的童年開始，之後到馬戲團工作，一次大戰時從軍，戰後開始掩蓋他的猶太血統，以超能力表演風靡全柏林，打入納粹高階社交圈，大富大貴但最後卻死於非命的傳奇一生。(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：曾獲美國猶太人出版聯合會頒發16座Simon Rockower Awards
獲獎無數的作家Arthur J. Magida
詳實記載這位傳奇人物的曲折一生 Review
"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 羅恩‧羅森鮑姆，《紐約觀察家》專欄作者、文學評論家，著有《Explaining Hitler》、《How the End Begins》
Movie: Optioned By Richard Suckle At Atlas Enterainment
"Magida’s narrative takes on the palpable dread of a thriller . . . The Nazi Séance not only demonstrates the impossibility of telling the future; it also shows how difficult it is to accurately understand the present."---Urbanite
"The saga of Hanussen is a riveting one that Magida tells ably . . . a story worth reading." --- The Forward
"The Nazi Séance 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
"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
"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
“Masterfully weaving the history of the Third Reich’s rise to power and Hanussen’s strange eccentricities that catapulted him from obscurity to prominence, Magida explores the intricacies of magic, alternately as both skeptic and believer, and follows the life trajectory of a complicated man whose mind plumbed the depths of some of the world’s most notorious evildoers… An exciting adventure… Clever, at times humorous …a fast-paced, enjoyable read. Packed with new analysis of the desperate cultural and political climate […] Magida’s well-crafted portrayal of Hanussen’s magical performances and the clairvoyant’s personal life establishes an enigmatic character of the interwar years whom audiences will sympathize with and ponder for years to come.” — The New Algemeiner
About the Author/作者介绍： Arthur J. Magida is writer-in-residence at the University of Baltimore and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He has been a columnist for Beliefnet.com, a contributing correspondent to PBS ’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, senior editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times, environmental reporter for National Journal, and a writer and editor for Ralph Nader. He has received multiple Simon Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association, A.D. Emmart Awards for writing on the humanities, and Smolar Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Arthur J. Magida是巴爾迪摩大學(University of Baltimore)的駐校作家以及喬治城大學(Georgetown University)的兼任教授。在學校任職之前，他是信仰網(Beliefnet.com)的專欄作家、美國公共廣播公司(PBS (Public Broadcasting Service))宗教與倫理新聞(Religion & Ethics Newsweekly)的特約記者、美國大屠殺博物館(the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)顧問、巴爾迪摩猶太時報(Baltimore Jewish Times)編輯以及美國國家期刊(National Journal)記者，也曾擔任過前美國總統候選人、美國消費者運動之父Ralph Nader的私人作家與編輯。
Arthur J. Magida獲獎無數，曾獲美國猶太人出版聯合會(American Jewish Press Association)頒發16座Simon Rockower Awards、另外還獲得5座人道主義新聞的獎項A.D. Emmart Awards，和2座頒給為猶太新聞貢獻良多人士的Smolar Awards。
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