Guenter Lewy

Jews and Germans (eBook, PDF)

Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Jewish Publication Society
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780827618510
• Artikelnr.: 72462764

Autorenporträt

Guenter Lewy is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers. Born in 1923 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroc¿aw, Poland), he lived for six years under Nazi rule and was on the receiving end of storm trooper violence during Kristallnacht. He emigrated to Palestine in early 1939. With Erwin Rommel at the gates of Alexandria, Lewy volunteered for the British Army and served in the Jewish Brigade, which fought in Italy as part of Montgomery’s Eighth Army. For about a year after the war he was an interpreter for the British military police in occupied Germany. In 1946 he came to the United States.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Struggle for Emancipation
2. The Heyday of Assimilation and Cultural Greatness
3. Jewish Patriots
4. The German-Jewish Youth Movement
5. Seeking a Place under Nazi Rule
6. Living in the Land of the Murderers
7. Being Jewish in Communist East Germany
Conclusion
Notes
BibliographyIndex