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Silence Not, A Love Story - Price: $17.95
by Cynthia L. Coper, ISBN: 9 78098 1 990606
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Durnig an economic crisis in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s an idealistic young Jewish Woman involved in the labor movement in Hamburg joins with a rebellious Catholic artisan to resist the rise of Nazisn at the same time deepening their love for humanity and each other.
Drawn from the true stories of Gisa Peiper and Paul Konopka SILENCE NOT, A LOVE STORY is a story of courage and love that
thrives despite the dangers,
telling of hope and art of, of speaking out for the highest humanvalues in the most pressing times.
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Biography :
CYNTHIA L COOPER is an award-winning playwright, journalist and author. She writes about women’s issues and human rights. As a playwright, Cooper’s works have been produced in New York, throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. As a two-time Jerome Fellow, she has written 16 additional plays and six nonfiction books, in addition to numerous articles.
Book Review :
Thought-provoking without being abstract, historical without being condescending, SILENCE NOT, A LOVE STORY is a heady, beautifully written play. WORTH READING SEVERAL TIMES, it strikes a lovely balance between poetry and reality, bringing to life a diverse cast of characters in a challenging time period. Cooper reminds us, in the closing lines, that true resistance to oppression comes from the act of love—and to love wholeheartedly is the most radical act any person can commit.
-Claire Rudy Foster from ForeWord Reviews.
Cynthia Cooper is a powerful playwright. SILENCE NOT, A LOVE STORY will spark a fabulous discussion on resistance today. Gisa and Paul have incredibla moral courage and life-long-love that sustains them through a terrible period in history when society failed. Each of us needs to consider our character at every moment-are we perpetrator, victim, helper, bystander, or resister? Every high school student should read this play.
-Maureen McNeil, Director of Education, The Anne Frank Center USA
A new genre of works have emerged over the past several years, stories of resistance to the Nazi regime and of the struggles to maintain one’s dignity and decency in the wake of a totalitarian regime bent on the destruction of segments of the populations including the Jews. This powerful play recreates in moving drama those struggles and the desperate attempt of good people to remain moral in the most immoral of societies. Powerful, poignant and penetrating, it will move those who read it and cause them to ponder the sources of courage and resistance.
-Michael Berenbaum
Professor of Jewish Studies
Director of the Sigi Zieirng Institute: Exploring the Ethical And Religious Implications of the Holocaust
American Jewish University Los Angeles, California
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