​The Ghetto Swinger is covered in Shepherd Express‘ list of recommended books about musicians. Arts & Entertainment Editor David Luhrssen writes:

“Unusually interesting amidst the plethora of self-serving musician autobiographies. Schumann has a better story to tell ​… survival under the hardest conditions, the value of well-placed friends and the vagaries of fortune as well as the impulse to create. The Ghetto Swinger is a r​are​ glimpse into the persistence of nightlife in Berlin (once a wide-open city) under the Nazis. At Theresienstadt, the ostensibly model concentration camp, Schumann entertained the SS guards with his music like his life depended on it—and it did!”

Read the full review: https://shepherdexpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/books/lives-in-music-stories-from-anthrax-to-wagner/