In the spring of 1940, Harvard University sent out a call to all German-Jewish refugees to describe their 'life in Germany before and after January 30, 1933 ... for a study of the social and psychological effect of National Socialism on German society and the German people' (Foreword, p...
Germans No More - Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938Most books on Nazi Germany focus on the war years. Much less is known about the preceding years although these give important clues with regard to the events after November 1938, which culminated in the Holocaust.Margarete Limberg...
Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843–1933. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 283. $45.00In this book, Robin Judd provides a history of two ... H Deborah - 《American Historical Review》 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 ...
However, like all things in life, the ghettos in wartime Europe all had their differences. Whether it be in size, location, population or any other defining factor, no ghetto was exactly the same as another. The ghettos were placed under the administrative control of the Jewish council or '...
Even Rieke’s dreams are real; they are versions of dreams that Jewish people in Germany were having during the early years of Hitler’s rise, collected in a book entitled The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation 1933-1939. WTP: Did you have a vetting process for ...
Allianz, the Insurance Business, and the Fate of Jewish Life Insurance Policies, 1933–1945 Gerald Feldman's history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources, making this a more accurate accoun...
Even though an estimated 50,000 Jewish converts to Christianity lived in Germany in 1933, the Nazis treated them as racial Jews. They also did so in other countries. For example, Chaim Kaplan, a distinguished principal of a Warsaw Hebrew school, took pleasure in 1939 in seeing that the Naz...
life of residents—including their artwork, stories, songs and jokes. Among the latter are several that folklorists have termed “gallows humor,” in which the jokes function not only to boost morale, but also to diminish the powe...
of a process of "concentration of big capital" and "liquidation of the "little man."99 He sub- sequently presented a far-reaching optimistic prognosis: now that "the Jews have disappeared from the economy" one "cannot blame them any longer for the worsening conditions of life in Germany.....
He was raised and lived for most of his life in Spain. Following his longing to the Land of Israel he managed to live in Jerusalem during his last years. One of his works that I especially like and recommend is “Iggeret ha-Musar“, which is a letter addressed to his son, giving ...