German Jews And Migration To The United States 1933 1945

Author : Andrea A. Sinn,Andreas Heusler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793646019

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German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945 by Andrea A. Sinn,Andreas Heusler Pdf

German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945 is a collection of first-person accounts, many previously unpublished, that document the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA,. The authors of the letters and memoirs included in this collection share two important characteristics: They all had close ties to Munich, the Bavarian capital, and they all emigrated to the USA, though sometimes via detours and/or after stays of varying lengths in other places of refuge. Selected to represent a wide range of exile experiences, these testimonies are carefully edited, extensively annotated, and accompanied by biographical introductions to make them accessible to readers, especially those who are new to the subject. These autobiographical sources reveal the often-traumatic experiences and consequences of forced migration, displacement, resettlement, and new beginnings. In addition, this book demonstrates that migration is not only a process by which groups and individuals relocate from one place to another but also a dynamic of transmigration affected by migrant networks and the complex relationships between national policies and the agency of migrants.

Author : Andrea A. Sinn,Andreas Heusler
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793646023

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German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933-1945 by Andrea A. Sinn,Andreas Heusler Pdf

This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful to those new to the subject.

Author : Maiken Umbach,Scott Sulzener
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030007843

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Photography, Migration and Identity by Maiken Umbach,Scott Sulzener Pdf

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, this Palgrave Pivot explores how these refugees made sense of that experience. For many German Jews, theirs was not just a story of flight and exile; it was also one chapter in a longer history of global movement, experienced less as an estrangement from Germanness, than a reiteration of the mobility central to it. Private photography allowed these families to position themselves in a context of fluctuating notions of Germaness, and resist the prescribed disentanglement of their Jewish and German identities. In opening a unique window onto refugees’ own sense of self as they moved across different geographical, political, and national environments, this book will appeal to readers interested in Jewish life and migration, visual culture, and the histories of National Socialism and the Holocaust.

Author : Richard Bretman,Alan M. Kraut
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0253304156

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American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 by Richard Bretman,Alan M. Kraut Pdf

How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer in a detailed analysis of American political realities and bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the authors describe and analyze American immigration policy as well as rescue and relief efforts directed toward European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. They contend that U.S. policy was the product of preexisting restrictive immigration laws; an entrenched State Department bureaucracy committed to a narrow defense of American interests; public opposition to any increase in immigration; and the reluctance of Franklin D. Roosevelt to accept the political risks of humanitarian measures to benefit the European Jews. The authors find that the bureaucrats who made and implemented refugee policy were motivated by institutional priorities and reluctance to take risks, rather than by moral or humanitarian concerns.

Author : Lori Gemeiner Bihler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438468877

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Cities of Refuge by Lori Gemeiner Bihler Pdf

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City. In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories. Lori Gemeiner Bihler examines institutions, neighborhoods, employment, language use, name changes, dress, family dynamics, and domestic life in these two cities to determine why immigrants in London adopted local customs more quickly than those in New York City, yet identified less as British than their counterparts in the United States did as American. By highlighting a disparity between integration and identity formation, Bihler challenges traditional theories of assimilation and provides a new framework for the study of refugees and migration. “This is the first comprehensive comparative study of German Jewish immigration during the period of National Socialism. Comparing German Jews who fled their homeland and resettled in London with those who resettled in New York City, Bihler carefully documents the distinct structural conditions each group encountered and consequently the divergent lives the two immigrant groups led. Bihler’s numerous significant insights would be unattainable without her intellectual commitment to rigorous comparative study.” — Judith M. Gerson, coeditor of Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas

Author : Bat-Ami Zucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050525339

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In Search of Refuge by Bat-Ami Zucker Pdf

Zucker (history, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) examines how the US consuls perceived, interpreted, and administered immigration policy towards Jewish refugees during the Nazi regime, exploring the relationship of consuls with the US State Department, as well as obvious examples of prejudice in obstructing the entry of refugees. She argues that the US held a restrictive policy in terms of both interpretation and administration of the law which was due in large part to consular anti-Semitism. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015026915341

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Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniela Gleizer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004262102

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Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 by Daniela Gleizer Pdf

Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.

Author : Anita Kassof,Avi Y. Decter,Deborah R. Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114002400

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Lives Lost, Lives Found by Anita Kassof,Avi Y. Decter,Deborah R. Weiner Pdf

Author : Herbert A. Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3598080085

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Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USA by Herbert A. Strauss Pdf

Author : Gisela Holfter,Horst Dickel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110351453

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An Irish Sanctuary by Gisela Holfter,Horst Dickel Pdf

The monograph provides the first comprehensive, detailed account of German-speaking refugees in Ireland 1933-1945 - where they came from, immigration policy towards them and how their lives turned out in Ireland and afterwards. Thanks to unprecedented access to thousands of files of the Irish Department of Justice (all still officially closed) as well as extensive archive research in Ireland, Germany, England, Austria as well as the US and numerous interviews it is possible for the first time to give an almost complete overview of how many people came, how they contributed to Ireland, how this fits in with the history of migration to Ireland and what can be learned from it. While Exile studies are a well-developed research area and have benefited from the work of research centres and archives in Germany, Austria, Great Britain and the USA (Frankfurt/M, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Innsbruck, Graz, Vienna, London and SUNY Albany and the Leo Baeck Institutes), Ireland was long neglected in this regard. Instead of the usual narrative of "no one was let in" or "only a handful came to Ireland" the authors identified more than 300 refugees through interviews and intensive research in Irish, German and Austrian archives. German-speaking exiles were the first main group of immigrants that came to the young Irish Free State from 1933 onwards and they had a considerable impact on academic, industrial and religious developments in Ireland.

Author : Patricia Zimmermann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638193078

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The immigration of German Jews in America in the first half of the 19th century by Patricia Zimmermann Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,25, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Landeskundeseminar: Being Jewish in the USA, language: English, abstract: About three percent of the population in the United States of today are Jews. Their home is America and they fell and act as Americans. Most of them are descendants of European emigrants who came to America in the mass migration in the first half of the 19th century. Today, scarcely anybody thinks about those days and even worse, many people hardly know anything about it. Well, it was not a long period of time in which the mass migration took place. It only covers about fifty years; yet, fifty important years. Those were the years, when the cornerstone of the Jewish history in America was laid. A history, different to Jewish histories in other countries. In the United States of America, Jews have never been discriminated nor persecuted. They had the same chances than every Gentile in America. This paper shows how the Jewish immigrants gained a foothold in America between the early years of the 19th century and the beginning of the Civil War. Jewish immigrants arrived in America without any money in their pockets. Yet, they had the hope to find a better life in this ‘golden country’. In the following it will be discussed how German Jews in America succeeded in business life and politics, and how they dealt with their religion in a country that did not put up any restrictions on them. This paper looks more on the general history. Although a history is always the history of people, it was avoided to tell the history of single persons because it would exceed the limit of this paper. Yet, sometimes the life of some people are given as examples.

Author : Herbert Arthur Strauss
Publisher : De Gruyter Saur
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001792475

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Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USA by Herbert Arthur Strauss Pdf

Documentary history and bibliography of sources on Jewish emigration to the United States from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere during the Nazi era (1933-1945). Includes biographies.

Author : Dennis Rohrbaugh
Publisher : De Gruyter Saur
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3598080107

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The Individual and Collective Experience of German-Jewish Immigrants, 1933-1984 by Dennis Rohrbaugh Pdf

Author : Avraham Barkai
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0841911525

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Branching Out by Avraham Barkai Pdf

The narrative chronicles their experiences in the goldfields of California, on Indian reservations, and during the Civil War, in which German-Jewish soldiers in the Union and Confederate armies struggled against bigotry to assert their civil rights.