... lingering tastes and luscious aromas...permeate Meriel Schindler’s affecting The Lost Café Schindler.

While the stories could scarcely be more powerful, a tighter edit would have made the book even more compelling. There is too much signposting, too much exposition, too many tangents.

Meriel Schindler’s precise and very well researched book effectively traces her family history from her great-grandfather’s time and is set to the backdrop of a Central Europe enduring the turbulent times of two world wars; very dramatically so for Jewish people who were to encounter a history of resentment and persecution.

Schindler’s book...does provide an impressively researched account of Jewish life in the Tyrol up to and during the Second World War.

... a skillfully crafted narrative interweaving one family's story with larger events while also considering complex themes of memory, guilt, and accountability. The author's fast-paced writing reads like a novel, and she includes family recipes and photographs that add a personal touch to an already intimate story.

... [an] extensively researched and vividly rendered memoir.

... powerful.