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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464055503321

Autore

Varon Jeremy <1969->

Titolo

The new life : Jewish students of postwar Germany / / Jeremy Varon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8143-3962-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Disciplina

943/.004924009044

Soggetti

Jews - Germany - History - 1945-1990

Jewish students - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Education (Higher) - Germany - History - 20th century

Holocaust survivors - Germany - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"I knew one thing--I have to study" : early education and dreams of the future -- "You survive because you survive" : occupation, exile, and the Holocaust -- "We create" : the origins and evolution of the Jewish Students' Union -- "The new life" : education and renewal in occupied Germany -- "Surviving survival" : living with the Holocaust and among the Germans -- "Pioneers, not scholars" : the Jewish students and Zionism.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the experiences of Jewish university students, survivors of the Holocaust who either remained as displaced persons in Germany or fled eastern Europe to the parts of Germany occupied by western powers as refugees--