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Jews in Nazi Berlin
Meyer, Beate, Simon, Hermann, Schutz, Chana
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Description for Jews in Nazi Berlin
Hardcover. Drawing on an archive that includes photographs, objects, official documents, and personal papers, this book assembles a multifaceted picture of Jewish daily life in the Nazi capital during the height of the regime's power. It covers such topics as emigration, the yellow star, Zionism, deportation, betrayal and survival. Editor(s): Meyer, Beate; Simon, Hermann; Schutz, Chana. Series: Studies in German Jewish Cultural History & Literature. Num Pages: 356 pages, 50 colour plates, 138 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 191 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1433.
Though many of the details of Jewish life under Hitler are familiar, historical accounts rarely afford us a real sense of what it was like for Jews and their families to live in the shadow of Nazi Germany's oppressive racial laws and growing violence. With "Jews in Nazi Berlin", those individual lives - and the constant struggle they required - come fully into focus, and the result is an unprecedented and deeply moving portrait of a persecuted people. Drawing on a remarkably rich archive that includes photographs, objects, official documents, and personal papers, the editors of "Jews in Nazi Berlin" ... Read more
Though many of the details of Jewish life under Hitler are familiar, historical accounts rarely afford us a real sense of what it was like for Jews and their families to live in the shadow of Nazi Germany's oppressive racial laws and growing violence. With "Jews in Nazi Berlin", those individual lives - and the constant struggle they required - come fully into focus, and the result is an unprecedented and deeply moving portrait of a persecuted people. Drawing on a remarkably rich archive that includes photographs, objects, official documents, and personal papers, the editors of "Jews in Nazi Berlin" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Series
Studies in German Jewish Cultural History & Literature
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226521572
SKU
V9780226521572
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About Meyer, Beate, Simon, Hermann, Schutz, Chana
Beate Meyer is a researcher at the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg. Hermann Simon is director of the New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation. Chana Schutz is a research associate at and vice director of the New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation.
Reviews for Jews in Nazi Berlin
"This unique and comprehensive collection of essays considers the Nazi destruction of Jewish life in Berlin between 1938 and 1945. Each facet in that process of destruction is described in meticulous detail, mainly by the victims themselves, and effectively conveyed by the volume's contributing authors in concise essays. There is nothing comparable in English that so thoroughly dissects the tragic ... Read more