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ISBN: 9780896640269
Category : Germany
Languages : en
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Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USA: Classified and annotated bibliography of books and articles on the immigration and acculturation of Jews from Central Europe to the USA since 1933
Author: Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the U.S.A..
Author: Herbert A. StraussPublisher:
ISBN: 9783598080050
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Languages : en
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The German-Jewish Legacy in America, 1938-1988
Author: Abraham J. PeckPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814322635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The essays in this volume were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the fateful pogrom in early November 1938 which was a watershed in the treatment of Jews in Germany and signaled the end to more than a century of specific Jewish culture there. Historian George Mosse in the opening essay characterizes this spirit as represented by Bildung, a post-emancipation notion that included character formation, moral education, the primacy of culture, the acquisition of aesthetic taste, and the belief in the potential of humanity. Bildung became to large portions of German Jewry an important, if not central, expression of their Jewishness. It is this legacy that this volume explores and seeks to understand. Among the questions contributors examine are the meaning of this legacy in our time, what has happened to it in its American context, whether it has found a home in the United States or whether it remains in exile, and which elements of the legacy are worth preserving for the next generation. Two groups address this range of questions. The first is made up of Jews born in Germany but who reached their professional maturity in the United States. The second is made up primarily of American-born individuals whose Jewish parents had either fled Nazi Germany or who, as German Jews, survived the Holocaust. The Germany Jewish Legacy in America commemorates the end of one of the greatest communities in Jewish history and explores those elements of its greatness which may still be relevant in insuring a vibrant and productive Jewish community in a free and democratic American society.
Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Immigration and Acculturation of Jews from Central Europe to the USA Since 1933
Author: Henry FriedlanderPublisher:
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Immigration and Acculturation of Jews from Central Europe to the USA Since 1933
Author: Herbert A. StraussPublisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
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Languages : en
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Immigrants from the German-speaking Countries of Europe
Author: Margrit Beran KrewsonPublisher:
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Category : Europe, German-speaking
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Immigration and Acculturation of Jews from Central Europe to the USA Since 1933
Author: Henry FriedlanderPublisher:
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Between Sorrow and Strength
Author: Sibylle QuackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This collection of essays that focuses on the women refugees of the Nazi period.
Germany On Their Minds
Author: Anne C. SchenderleinPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789200059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with Germany, the circumstances of the Second World War and the postwar era meant that engagement of some kind was unavoidable—whether direct or indirect, initiated within the community itself or by political actors and the broader German public. This book carefully traces these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic, demonstrating the remarkable extent to which German Jews and their former fellow citizens helped to shape developments from the Allied war effort to the course of West German democratization.
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