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Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
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...more
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...more
Paperback, Studies in Jewish History, 304 pages
Published
June 10th 1999
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1998)
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gender matters -- Jewish men were more reluctant to emigrate than were the women, since the former were more integrated in the public sphere (and committed to German (Liberal) culture), and the latter better able to observe the thousand pinpricks, that is, the incremental nature of Nazi violence and discrimination which penetrated ordinary every day life;
a social death preceded the physical death -- and in terms of social death, the majority of Germans were rampant...more
gender matters -- Jewish men were more reluctant to emigrate than were the women, since the former were more integrated in the public sphere (and committed to German (Liberal) culture), and the latter better able to observe the thousand pinpricks, that is, the incremental nature of Nazi violence and discrimination which penetrated ordinary every day life;
a social death preceded the physical death -- and in terms of social death, the majority of Germans were rampant...more
Excellent - highly recommended.
Heartbreaking first-hand accounts of everyday life in Nazi Germany.
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