03771nam 22009255 450 991096542030332120240508221926.09786611368081978128136808912813680839781403979414140397941310.1057/9781403979414(CKB)1000000000342709(EBL)308069(OCoLC)560461298(SSID)ssj0000232520(PQKBManifestationID)11947294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232520(PQKBWorkID)10214753(PQKB)11494950(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7941-4(MiAaPQ)EBC308069(Au-PeEL)EBL308069(CaPaEBR)ebr10135424(CaONFJC)MIL136808(Perlego)3497203(EXLCZ)99100000000034270920151127d2005 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRandom Destinations Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew /by L. Furst1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349531455 1349531456 9781403969750 1403969752 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-207) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; To the Reader; Introduction: "Shards from the Explosion"; LONDON; BRITISH PROVINCES; NEW YORK; U.S. PROVINCES; INDIA; Conclusion: "A Bit in the Middle of Nowhere"; Notes; Bibliography; IndexRandom Destinations examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. They faced many concrete and psychological problems at their random destinations: language acquisition, adjustment to different moves, fitting into the community, coming to terms with having been rejected by their homeland, the conflict between the desire to remember and/or forget their past, and, above all, the need to reshape their identities. Their personal struggles are contextualized within their historical situation, both global and specific to their new locale. The book argues that fiction, by taking ordinary escapees' difficulties into account, paradoxically offers a more subtle and true picture than sociological studies, that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals.Literature, Modern20th centuryEuropeHistoryHistory, ModernLiteratureHistory and criticismJudaismEuropean literatureTwentieth-Century LiteratureEuropean HistoryModern HistoryLiterary HistoryJudaismEuropean LiteratureLiterature, ModernEuropeHistory.History, Modern.LiteratureHistory and criticism.Judaism.European literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.European History.Modern History.Literary History.Judaism.European Literature.823/.91409352992423/.914093529924Furst Lilian R131726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965420303321Random Destinations4330387UNINA