Germany on their minds : German Jewish refugees in the United States and their relationships with Germany, 1938-1988 /
"Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with Germany, the circumstances of the Second Worl...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2020]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Studies in German history ;
volume 25 |
| Summary: | "Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with Germany, the circumstances of the Second World War and the postwar era meant that engagement of some kind was unavoidable-whether direct or indirect, initiated within the community itself or by political actors and the broader German public. This book carefully traces these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic, demonstrating the remarkable extent to which German Jews and their former fellow citizens helped to shape developments from the Allied war effort to the course of West German democratization"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revised dissertation (Ph. D.), University of California (San Diego), 2014. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 245 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789200065 1789200067 9781789200058 1789200059 9781789200119 1789200113 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |