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Between Dignity and Despair : Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

ISBN: 9780195115314 | 0195115317
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/23/1998

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming i... MORE
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Preface and Dedicationvii(4)
Acknowledgmentsxi
INTRODUCTION3(14)
Daily Life and Women's History5(5)
Overview of the Jewish Community10(7)
1 IN PUBLIC: JEWS ARE TURNED INTO PARIAHS, 1933-1938
17(33)
Political Lawlessness and Economic Oppression
18(14)
Daily Life, Daily Deprivations: Food, Shelter, and Relationships with Other Germans
32(14)
Jewish Reactions in Public: Jewish Social Life and Jewishness
46(4)
2 IN PRIVATE: THE DAILY LIVES OF JEWISH WOMEN AND FAMILIES, 1933-1938
50(24)
Accommodation and Conformity in Private Life
50(4)
The "Duty" of the Jewish Woman: The Household
54(3)
The "Duty" of the Jewish Woman: The Challenges of New Roles and the Tenacity of Old Ones
57(5)
The Emigration Quandary
62(12)
3 JEWISH AND "MIXED" FAMILIES
74(20)
Engagement, Marriage, and the Decision to Build a Family
74(9)
"Mixed" Marriages and "Mixed" Families
83(4)
Divorce
87(7)
4 THE DAILY LIVES OF JEWISH CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN THE "THIRD REICH"
94(25)
School
94(12)
Hostile Environment Beyond School
106(3)
Jewish Teens
109(7)
Children Leave Home
116(3)
5 THE NOVEMBER POGROM AND ITS AFTERMATH
119(26)
The Background to November 1938
119(2)
The Pogrom
121(4)
Women's Roles and Reactions during the Pogrom
125(4)
Emigration
129(16)
6 WAR AND THE WORSENING SITUATION OF JEWS
145(28)
The Immediate Prewar Persecutions
145(5)
Outbreak of War
150(10)
The Bombings: Popular and Jewish Attitudes
160(1)
Jewish Social Life in Wartime
161(8)
Anna and Salomon Samuel: The Odyssey of One Elderly Jewish Couple
169(4)
7 FORCED LABOR AND DEPORTATIONS
173(28)
Forced Labor
173(6)
Despair and Suicide
179(5)
Deportations: The Transition from Social Death to Physical Annihilation
184(17)
8 LIFE UNDERGROUND
201(28)
Going into Hiding
201(2)
The Dilemmas of an Illegal Life
203(9)
Jewish Resistance
212(4)
Three Accounts of Hiding
216(13)
CONCLUSION229(10)
Jewish Responses229(3)
German Perpetrators and Bystanders232(7)
Notes239(26)
Bibliography265(10)
Index275

Marion Kaplan is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (OUP), which won the National Jewish Book Award and the German History Prize and The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany. She lives in New York City.

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