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Marion A. Kaplan - Between Dignity and Despair - 9780195130928 - V9780195130928
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Between Dignity and Despair

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Description for Between Dignity and Despair Paperback. Draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give readers an intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. 6 halftones. Series: Studies in Jewish History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
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 from the vantage of 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Jewish History
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195130928
SKU
V9780195130928
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About Marion A. Kaplan
Marion Kaplan, whose own parents escaped Nazi Germany, is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (OUP), which won the National Jewish Book Award and the German History Prize and The Jewish Feminist ... Read more

Reviews for Between Dignity and Despair
"This is a devastatingly powerful book. By vividly illustrating how the Holocaust began with seemingly inconsequential acts of humiliation, Kaplan offers readers a message of contemporary relevance."
The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating....Kaplan works at the intersection of Holocaust history and women's studies."
The Philadelphia Inquirer "An exceptional Holocaust study."
Kirkus Reviews "An innovative and suggestive exploration of a surprisingly neglected ... Read more

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