Between Two Worlds : Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

Robin Judd

ISBN 10: 1469675447 / ISBN 13: 9781469675442

Edité par University Of North Carolina Press Dez 2023, 2023

A propos de cet article

Neuware - 'Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed-from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom-and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the chaplains who officiated their weddings, the Allied authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples' fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captures how the exhilaration of the brides' early romances coexisted with survivor's guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Between Two Worlds : Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust
• Éditeur: University Of North Carolina Press Dez 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1469675447
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781469675442
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 242 L x 156 H x 26 P (en millimètres) 242 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 26 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 567 grammes

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Synopsis

Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war.

À propos de l?auteur

Robin Judd is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, where she directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership in History Fellowship program.