Between Dignity And Despair

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195313581

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Between Dignity and Despair by Marion A. Kaplan Pdf

Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of Novemer 1938. Then the flow of emigration turned into a torrent, only to be stopped by the war. By that time Jews had been evicted from their homes, robbed of their possessions and their livelihoods, shunned by their former friends, persecuted by their neighbors, and driven into forced labor. For those trapped in Germany, mere survival became a nightmare of increasingly desperate options. Many took their own lives to retain at least some dignity in death; others went underground and endured the fears of nightly bombings and the even greater terror of being discovered by the Nazis. Most were murdered. All were pressed to the limit of human endurance and human loneliness. Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, Between Dignity and Despair takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Studies in Jewish History
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195130928

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Between Dignity and Despair by Marion A. Kaplan Pdf

Drawing on the memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men, this book tells the story of Jews in Germany from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of those trying to navigate their daily lives.

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199772131

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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class by Marion A. Kaplan Pdf

A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.

Author : Marion Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300249507

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Hitler’s Jewish Refugees by Marion Kaplan Pdf

An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees’ inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

Author : Lily E. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472034970

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A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany by Lily E. Hirsch Pdf

Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany

Author : Michael Wildt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782386704

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Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion by Michael Wildt Pdf

In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided – in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and pride after the humiliating ending of World War I persuaded many Germans to support him and to shut their eyes to dictatorial coercion, concentration camps, secret state police, and the exclusion of large sections of the population. The author argues however, that the everyday practice of exclusion changed German society itself: bureaucratic discrimination and violent anti-Jewish actions destroyed the civil and constitutional order and transformed the German nation into an aggressive and racist society. Based on rich source material, this book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts of this transformation as it traces continuities and discontinuities and the replacement of a legal order with a violent one, the extent of which may not have been intended by those involved.

Author : Magdalena Opalski,Yiśraʼel Barṭal
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0874516021

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Poles and Jews by Magdalena Opalski,Yiśraʼel Barṭal Pdf

Examines Polish and Jewish perceptions of the rapprochement culminating in Polish national insurrection against Czarist Russia in 1863.

Author : Peter Schrag
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299320201

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The World of Aufbau by Peter Schrag Pdf

Aufbau—a German-language weekly, published in New York and circulated nationwide—was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in every part of the world. In its pages Aufbau focused on concerns that strongly impacted this community in the aftermath of World War II: anti-Semitism in the United States and in Europe, the ever-changing immigration and naturalization procedures, debates about the designation of Hitler refugees as enemy aliens, questions about punishment for the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, the struggle for compensation and restitution, and the fight for a Jewish homeland. The book examines the columns and advertisements that chronicled the social and cultural life of that generation and maintained a detailed account of German-speaking cultures in exile. Peter Schrag is the first to present a definitive account of the influential publication that brought postwar refugees together and into the American mainstream.

Author : Sarah Ann Gordon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691101620

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Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question" by Sarah Ann Gordon Pdf

Errata slip inserted. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 389-405.

Author : Sergio DellaPergola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351510905

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Jewish Intermarriage Around the World by Sergio DellaPergola Pdf

Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It focuses on intermarriage in Great Britain, France, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Argentina and Curacao, then applies the findings to the United States.In earlier centuries such a volume might have yielded much diff erent conclusions. Then Jews lived in more countries, intermarriage was not as prevalent, and social science had little to contribute. Before World War II, the Jewish population was dispersed much diff erently, and it continues to shift around the world because of both push and pull factors. Like demography, intermarriage is a dynamic process. What is true today was probably not true in the past, nor will it be true tomorrow.The contributors to this volume locate new forms of Jewish family life—single parents, gay/lesbian parents, adults without children, and couples with multiple backgrounds. These multiple family forms raise a new question—what is a Jewish family—as well as a variety of related issues. Do women and men have diff erent roles in intermarriage? Does a family need two people to raise children? Should there be patrilineal descent? Where do adoption, single parenting, lesbian and gay identities, and more, fit into the picture? Broadly, what role does the family play in transmitting a group's culture from generation to generation? This volume presents a portrait of Jewish demography in the twenty-first century, brilliantly interweaving global processes with significant local variations.

Author : D. van Galen Last,Rolf Wolfswinkel
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 905356182X

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Anne Frank and After by D. van Galen Last,Rolf Wolfswinkel Pdf

Between 1940 and 1945, 110,000 of the 140,000 Dutch Jews were deported to the death camps in Eastern Europe. 80% never returned. In Anne Frank and After the authors focus on two main questions: how exactly did this happen, and how has Dutch literature come to terms with this appalling event? In the book's final chapter they analyze the relationship between history and the literature of the Holocaust. Does literature add to what we know or does it actually distort historical evidence? Based on the work of leading historians of the period, the book examines literary works from Gerard Durlacher, Anne Frank, W.F. Hermans, Harry Mulisch, Gerard Reve and many others. "With its well-chosen quotations (many appearing for the first time in print), presented in a clear and illuminating historical setting, Anne Frank and After is must reading for all who want to go beyond Anne Frank for a more rounded picture of wartime Holland and its Jews." (Holocaust and Genocide Studies—January 1998)

Author : Carole S. Kessner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584654511

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Marie Syrkin by Carole S. Kessner Pdf

Marie Syrkin's life spanned ninety years of the twentieth century, 1899-1989. As a polemical journalist, socialist Zionist, poet, educator, literary critic, translator, and idiosyncratic feminist, she was eyewitness to and reporter on most of the major events in America, Israel, and Europe. Beautiful as well as brilliant, she had a rich personal life as lover, wife, mother, and friend. During her lifetime Syrkin's name was widely recognized in the world of Jewish life and letters. Yet, inevitably, since her death, recognition of her name is no longer quite so immediate. Carole S. Kessner's intention is to restore for a new generation the singular legacy of Syrkin's life. Syrkin was born in Switzerland, the only child of the theoretician of socialist Zionism Nachman Syrkin and Bassya Osnos Syrkin, a feminist socialist Zionist. Following short stints in several European countries, the family immigrated to the United States in 1909. By the age of ten Marie was fluent in five languages. Educated in American public schools and at Cornell University, by the time she was twenty-three she had published translations as well as her own poetry. After her first trip to Palestine in 1933, Syrkin joined the staff of the Jewish Frontier. This began her lifelong contribution to Zionism, Jewish life, and responsible journalism. In 1947 she published her most celebrated work, Blessed Is the Match. In 1950 she became a professor of English literature at Brandeis University and later published a biography of her father and the authorized biography of her longtime close friend Golda Meir. Syrkin married three times: the first, to Maurice Samuel, annulled by her father's intervention; the second, to the biochemist Aaron Bodansky, the father of her son David; the third, to the poet Charles Reznikoff, lasted on and off for more than forty years. In the course of her life, Marie had many influential friends, such as Hayim Greenberg, Ben Gurion, and Irving Howe, and she served as inspiration to many younger intellectuals, including Martin Peretz, Michael Walzer, and Leon Wieseltier. As poet and journalist, Zionist activist and public intellectual, Syrkin's work and actions illuminate a wide range of twentieth-century literary, cultural, and political concerns. Her passions demonstrate, as Irving Howe said, "a life of commitment to values beyond the self."

Author : Matthew Baigell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813524040

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Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust by Matthew Baigell Pdf

Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish. Few artists responded openly to the Holocaust until the 1960s, when it finally began to act as a galvanizing force, allowing Jewish-American artists to express their Jewish identity in their work. Baigell describes how artists initially deflected their responses into abstract forms or by invoking biblical and traditional figures and then in more recent decades confronted directly Holocaust imagery and memory. He traces the development of artistic work from the late 1930s to the present in a moving study of a long overlooked topic in the history of American art.

Author : Marion Kaplan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004172428

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The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany by Marion Kaplan Pdf

Author : Hermann Langbein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863633

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People in Auschwitz by Hermann Langbein Pdf

Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents, conversations, and actions that would have remained unknown to history were it not for his witness and his subsequent research. Also a member of the Auschwitz resistance, Langbein sometimes found himself in a position to influence events, though at his peril. People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein's account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement intertwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents. Whether his recounting deals with captors or inmates, Langbein analyzes the events and their context objectively, in an unemotional style, rendering a narrative that is unique in the history of the Holocaust. This monumental book helps us comprehend what has so tenaciously challenged understanding.