Safe among the Germans [[electronic resource] ] : liberated Jews after World War II / / Ruth Gay

• Autore: Gay Ruth
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 347 p.) ) : ill., facsims., ports
• Disciplina: 943/.004924
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust survivors - Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence; Jews - Germany - History - 1945-1990; Jews, East European - Germany - History - 20th century; Jewish refugees - Germany - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Ethnic relations
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references (p. 309-330) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE. Where They Came From -- TWO. Return to the World -- THREE. -- FOUR. Jews Again in Berlin -- FIVE. -- SIX. New Generations in Germany -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book tells the little-known story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation soon found that their homeland had become a new killing ground, where some 1,500 Jews were murdered in pogroms between 1945 and 1947. Facing death at home, and with Palestine and the rest of the world largely closed to them, they looked for a place to be safe and found it in the shelter of the Allied Occupation Forces in Germany. By 1950 a little community of 20,000 Jews remained in Germany: 8,000 native German Jews and 12,000 from Eastern Europe. Ruth Gay examines their contrasting lives in the two postwar Germanies. After the fall of Communism, the Jewish community was suddenly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of former Soviet Jews. Now there are some 100,000 Jews in Germany. The old, somewhat nostalgic life of the first postwar decades is being swept aside by radical forces from the Lubavitcher at one end to Reform and feminism at the other. What started in 1945 as a "remnant" community has become a dynamic new center of Jewish life.
• Titolo autorizzato: Safe among the Germans
• ISBN: 1-281-73132-3; 9786611731328; 0-300-13312-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777831703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II