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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 dally 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 inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of November 1938. Kaplan shows how most Germans hounded Jews and begins to answer the unrelenting question, What did Germans know about the persecutions and what did they do?
Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, Between Dignity and Despair takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany.
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Jews, Ethnic relations, Judenvernichtung, Social conditions, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), History, Joden, Dagelijks leven, Derde Rijk, Holocaust, Alltag, Judenverfolgung, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866, Juden, Jews, germany, Jews, history, 1789-, Germany, history, 1933-1945, Germany, ethnic relations, Jews, social conditionsPlaces
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1999, Oxford University Press
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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. This deeply moving picture of an oppressed community responding to adversity gives us a new way to address the unrelenting question, Why didn't they leave sooner? It also offers a new look at the problem, What did the Germans know and what did they do? - Back cover.
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