Overcoming intolerance and bigotry

Interview with Richard Alther

Topics of conversation:

• Personal experience of infiltration of ethnic minorities into community
• Will there be another Holocaust?
• Controversy of building a Mosque at Ground Zero
• Overcoming intolerance and bigotry
• Internal awareness of society issues

Richard Alther was raised as a Lutheran German-American in a small New York City suburb, rife with anti-Semitism. After graduating as an English major from Cornell University, he supported himself and his family as a writer of vegetable gardening manuals from their Vermont homestead. Fueled by his ongoing search into the roots of Nazism, he studied German and Jewish history, folklore, and languages. SIEGFRIED FOLLIES approaches the aftermath and legacy of the Holocaust from a perspective coequally gentile and Jewish. This is his second novel.

Alther has been an exhibiting painter for many years. In addition, he trains and competes nationally as a Masters Swimmer. He and his new spouse live in Vermont and California.

Siegfried Follies

Richard Alther
Regent Press (2010)
ISBN 9781587902048
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (09/10)

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