Between Sorrow and Strength is a collection of essays that focuses on women refugees of the Nazi period who fled to different countries all over the world. Written by historians and contemporary eyewitnesses, the essays and reports in this volume illuminate refugee women's side of the story--their important role in the survival of their families, their everyday life, and their adaptive skills in the various places of exile and emigration. Scholarly insights and eyewitness perspectives are united in a fruitful and unique way.
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"Taken together, the twenty-three contributions make a compelling case for a gender-specific treatment of the refugee experience." German Studies Review
"Sibylle Quack and the contributors to this volume can be congratulated. Between Sorrow and Strength is an important collection of reports and essays on a subject that most scholars have neglected for too long: women refugees from Nazi Europe....a fascinating collection...." Doris L. Bergen, German Politics and Society
"Sibylle Quack and the contributors to this volume can be congratulated. Between Sorrow and Strength is an important collection of reports and essays on a subject that most scholars have neglected for too long: women refugees from Nazi Europe....a fascinating collection...." Doris L. Bergen, German Politics and Society
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Between Sorrow and Strength is a collection of essays that focuses on women refugees of the Nazi period who fled to different countries all over the world. Written by historians and contemporary eyewitnesses, the essays and reports in this volume illuminate, for the first time, refugee women's side of the story--their important role in the survival of their families, their everyday life, and their adaptive skills in the various places of exile and emigration. Scholarly insights and eyewitness perspectives are united in a fruitful and unique way.
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emigrant historians, refugee social workers, refugee historians, refugee physicians, socialist exiles, exile women, refugee women, women refugees, emigrant women, refugee men, immigrant organizations, women doctors, refugee service, interview partners, socialist women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, German Jewish, World War, American Jewish, Marie Juchacz, Hedwig Wachenheim, German Jews, Library of Congress, Alice Salomon, Nazi Germany, Washington Heights, Weimar Republic, Toni Sender, Manuscript Division, National Socialism, Brooklyn College, International Biographical Dictionary, National Council, Council Woman, Harvard University, Charlotte Sempell, Sao Paulo, Third Reich, Great Britain New!
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- When Biology Became Destiny (New Feminist Library) by Renate Bridenthal in Front Matter, and page 316
- Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner on page 313, and page 315
- Psychology in Twentieth-Century Thought and Society by Mitchell G. Ash on page 240, and page 244
- Crystal Night by Rita Thalmann in Front Matter, and page 130
- The Defiant Muse: German Feminist Poems from the Middl: A Bilingual Anthology (German and English Edition) by Susan L. Cocalis on page 346, and page 351
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- Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Publications of the German Historical Institute) by Mitchell G. Ash in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture (Explorations in Sociology) by Avtar Brah on page 191, page 203, and page 204
- Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women (Modern Jewish Experience) by Harriet Pass Freidenreich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Out of the Third Reich: Refugee Historians in Postwar Britain (International Library of Historical Studies) by Peter Alter in Front Matter
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