Anne C. Schenderlein

Germany On Their Minds

German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938-1988

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Studies in German History
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781789200058
• ISBN-10: 1789200059
• Artikelnr.: 55796456

Autorenporträt

Anne C. Schenderlein is the managing director of the Dahlem Humanities Center at Freie Universität Berlin. After receiving her doctorate in modern European history at the University of California, San Diego, she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute from 2015 to 2019. Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the Leo Baeck Fellowship and, more recently, a grant from the American Jewish Archives, where she conducted research on American Jewish boycotts and consumption of German products. She is the coeditor, with Paul Lerner and Uwe Spiekermann, of Jewish Consumer Cultures in Europe and America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Background
Chapter 2. Americanization before 1941
Chapter 3. The Enemy Alien Classification, 1941-1944
Chapter 4. German Jewish Refugees in the U.S. Military
Chapter 5. German Jewish Refugees and the Discourse on Germany's Future,
1942-1945
Chapter 6. German Jewish Refugees and the West German Foreign Office in the
1950s and 1960s
Chapter 7. German Jewish Refugee Travel to Germany and West German
Municipal Visitor Programs
Conclusion: Germany on Their Minds?
Index