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Between Dignity and Despair

Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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Between Dignity and Despair

Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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.

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Oxford University Press

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0195313585

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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

Describes the life of Jewish middle-class women in Wilhelmine Germany. Pp. 148-152, "Anti-Semitism in the University, " state that until about 1905 women students, discriminated against because of their sex, tended to show solidarity by forming organizations open to all, in contrast to the segregated male students' organizations. Russian Jewish women were especially despised, even by German Jewish male students. Pp. 182-185 describe discrimination against Jewish teachers, noting that their chances of employment were highly limited. See also the index under "Anti-Semitism.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195039521

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Between Dignity and Despair

Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

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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 dally lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane.

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Studies in Jewish History

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0195130928

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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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 Jewishmiddle 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.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0195093968

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9780195093964

Hitler’s Jewish Refugees

By: Marion Kaplan

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Hitler’s Jewish Refugees

By: Marion Kaplan

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 dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler's regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals these refugees experienced, Marion Kaplan also highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories, while having to beg strangers for kindness. Portugal's dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, admitted the largest number of Jews fleeing westward--tens of thousands of them--but then set his secret police on those who did not move along quickly enough. Yet Portugal's people left a lasting impression on refugees for their caring and generosity. Most refugees in Portugal showed strength and stamina as they faced unimagined challenges. 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.

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Yale University Press

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0300244258

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9780300244250

Marion Milner

By: Marion Milner

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Marion Milner

By: Marion Milner

In this series, Emma Letley has worked with the Marion Milner estate to re-contextualise six classic volumes by arranging for experts to provide new scholarly introductions to each book. This six volume pack comprises: The Hands of the Living God On Not being Able to Paint Eternity's Sunrise A Life of One's Own An Experiment in Leisure. Bothered by Alligators These volumes will be useful and relevant to seasoned analysts as well as those new to Milner's work, making them attractive to a whole new generation of readers from both inside and outside of the psychotherapy profession.

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Routledge

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1317709454

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Between Dignity and Despair

Between Dignity and Despair

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Between Dignity and Despair

Between Dignity and Despair

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Hitler’s Jewish Refugees

Hitler’s Jewish Refugees

Marion Milner

Marion Milner

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