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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 August 2009
      30 September 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511497100
      9780521811057
      9780521037563
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497100
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.698kg, 350 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.533kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Judaism, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, Religion, European Studies
      Series:
      Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare (12)
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    Subjects:
    Judaism, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, Religion, European Studies
    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare (12)
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    This is the remarkable story of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors who converged on the American Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945 to 1948. They envisaged themselves as the living bridge between destruction and rebirth, the last remnants of a world destroyed and the active agents of its return to life. Much of what has been written elsewhere looks at the Surviving Remnant through the eyes of others and thus has often failed to disclose the tragic complexity of their lives together with their remarkable political and social achievements. Despite having lost everyone and everything, they got on with their lives, they married, had children and worked for a better future. They did not surrender to the deformities of suffering and managed to preserve their humanity intact. Mankowitz uses largely inaccessible archival material to give a moving and sensitive account of this neglected area in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

    Reviews

    ‘… Life between Memory and Hope is a compelling achievement that will enrich immeasurably our comprehension of the Holocaust and its aftermath … Mankowitz’s book is virtually in a class of its own, and scholars of German and European history, as well as Jewish and Middle Eastern history, are certain to be enlightened by it.’

    Michael Berkowitz Source: H-German

    'Life between Memory and Hope is a meticulously researched and well-written study of a period which is often forgotten in the face of the enormous catastrophe before and the Jewish political revival afterwards.'

    Source: German History

    ‘… this is a well-written and well-researched study. It presents an original thesis, which is convincingly argued.‘

    Source: Studies in Contemporary Jewry

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