German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933-1945
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Summary
German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945 is a collection of first-person accounts, many previously unpublished, that document the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA,. The authors of the letters and memoirs included in this collection share two important characteristics: They all had close ties to Munich, the Bavarian capital, and they all emigrated to the USA, though sometimes via detours and/or after stays of varying lengths in other places of refuge. Selected to represent a wide range of exile experiences, these testimonies are carefully edited, extensively annotated, and accompanied by biographical introductions to make them accessible to readers, especially those who are new to the subject. These autobiographical sources reveal the often-traumatic experiences and consequences of forced migration, displacement, resettlement, and new beginnings. In addition, this book demonstrates that migration is not only a process by which groups and individuals relocate from one place to another but also a dynamic of transmigration affected by migrant networks and the complex relationships between national policies and the agency of migrants.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-4600-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-4601-9
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 254
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Figures No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Historical Background No access
- About the Book No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Growing up in Munich No access
- My father’s escape: Spring 1938 No access
- My Mother’s Decision No access
- Our escape No access
- Arrival in the United States No access
- In Retrospect No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- War, Again No access
- Arrival No access
- Notes No access
- Arrival and Stay in Rio No access
- Through Night, Through Forest to the Land of Red Earth No access
- In Rolandia No access
- On the Way to the New Place to Stay No access
- Deus Ex Machina No access
- Back to Life in the City No access
- The Fate of My Parents No access
- First Work in the City No access
- Brazil at War No access
- Leisure-time Activities No access
- Ending in Brazil No access
- Arrival and Entry into America No access
- Reunion and First Days in New York No access
- Notes No access
- Our Finances and Opening the Stores, 1941 and Later No access
- Los Angeles, 1941–1951 No access
- Negotiations with Mr. Hirmer, etc., 1950, 1951, and After No access
- Notes No access
- Portland 1940 No access
- Return 1951 No access
- Return 1951—Part 2 No access
- Stay 1951 No access
- Parting Thoughts 1951 No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Notes No access
- Affidavit (of Support) No access
- Agudat Jisroel (Hebrew) No access
- Alija(h) (Hebrew) No access
- Anschluss (German) No access
- “Aryanization” No access
- Aschkenasi, Plur. Aschkenasim (Hebrew) No access
- Auschwitz No access
- Bar Mizwa/Mitzwa/Mitzvah (Hebrew) No access
- Bat Mizwa/Mitzwa/Mitzvah (Hebrew) No access
- Bergen-Belsen No access
- Bet ha-Knesset (Hebrew) No access
- Betsaal (German) No access
- Bimah No access
- British Home Office No access
- Buchenwald No access
- Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) No access
- Cantor No access
- Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (German) No access
- Chasan/Hazzan (Hebrew) No access
- Chełmno No access
- D-Day No access
- Dachau No access
- Der Stürmer (German) No access
- Displaced Person (DP) No access
- Enemy Alien No access
- Erev Rosch ha-Schana (Hebrew) No access
- Erez Israel (Hebrew) No access
- Gestapo (= Geheime Staatspolizei) No access
- Gleichschaltung (German) No access
- Gymnasium No access
- Hachschara (Hebrew) No access
- Hanukkah/Hanukah (Hebrew) No access
- Haschomer Hazair (Hebrew) No access
- Hasid, Plur. Hasidim (Hebrew) No access
- Hasidism (from Hebrew Hasid, the pious) No access
- HIAS No access
- Hitlerjugend (HJ) No access
- Immigration Quota No access
- Joint No access
- Judenhaus (German) No access
- Jüdische Volksschule (German) No access
- Kennkarten-Doppel (German) No access
- Kibbu(t)z, Plur. Kibbu(t)zim (Hebrew) No access
- Kindertransport (German) No access
- kosher (Hebrew) No access
- Kristallnacht No access
- Lift (also Liftvan) No access
- Moschav, Plur. Moschavim (Hebrew) No access
- Nuremberg Laws No access
- “Ostjuden”/ “Ost-Juden” (German) No access
- Passover/Pessach (Hebrew) No access
- Purim (Hebrew) No access
- Quota(system) No access
- Rabbi (Hebrew) No access
- Rebbe, Plur. Rebbes (Yiddish) No access
- Reichsfluchtsteuer (German) No access
- Rosh ha-Shanah/Rosch Haschana (Hebrew) No access
- Rosh HaYeshiva (Hebrew) No access
- SA (= Sturmabteilung) No access
- Sachsenhausen No access
- Schtetl (Yiddish) No access
- Schti(e)bel (Yiddish) No access
- Seder (Hebrew) No access
- Sefer Torah (Hebrew) No access
- Sephardi, Plur. Sephardim (Hebrew) No access
- Shabbat (Hebrew) No access
- Shoah/Schoa (Hebrew) No access
- SS (= Schutzstaffel) No access
- Synagogue No access
- Talmud (Hebrew) No access
- Theresienstadt/Terezín (German/Czech) No access
- Torah (Hebrew) No access
- Treblinka No access
- Ulpan, Plur. Ulpanim (Hebrew) No access
- Völkischer Beobachter No access
- Volksgemeinschaft (German) No access
- Wiedergutmachung (German) No access
- Yeshiva, Plur. Yeshivot (Hebrew) No access
- Yom Kippur (Hebrew) No access
- Yom Tov (Hebrew) No access
- Zionism No access
- Memoirs No access
- Letters No access
- Illustrations No access
- Archives No access
- Bibliography No access
- Index No access Pages 239 - 252
- About the Editors No access Pages 253 - 254
