Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History)
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 Despairtakes 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.
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 Despairtakes 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.
- Introduction
1In Public: Jews Are Turned into Pariahs, 1933–1938
2In Private: The Daily Lives of Jewish Women and Families, 1933–1938- 3Jewish and “Mixed” Families
4.The Daily Lives of Jewish Children and Youth in the “Third Reich”- 5The November Pogrom and Its Aftermath
- 6War and the Worsening Situation of Jews
- 7Forced labor and deportations...
- 3Jewish and “Mixed” Families
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Año:
1998
Edición:
2
Editorial:
Oxford University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
304
ISBN 10:
0195313585
ISBN 13:
9780195313581
Serie:
Studies in Jewish History
Archivo:
PDF, 15.92 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1998
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