The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees caught in the tumultuous years leading to the Second World War, form the core of this book. Abridged ...in English from the original German, the correspondence and diaries have been expertly compiled and annotated by their only son who preserves his parents’ love story in their own words. Their letters, written from Germany, England, Russia, and Palestine capture their desperate efforts to save themselves and their family, friends and businesses from the fascist tyranny. The book begins by contextualizing the early lives of Moritz and Vera. Because the letters are written to each other almost daily, they are incredibly immediate. Most centrally, the letters recount an astonishing love story, sensual in its intimate detail, and full of dramatic pathos in revealing the anxieties of being apart as the Nazi threat unfolds and broadens. It is told through the voices of two exceptionally articulate letter writers. This volume offers insights into the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by German Jews as a targeted community. It affords a unique appreciation of the impact of historical and socio-political upheavals on the lives of a persecuted minority. A scholarly introduction by Rachel Pistol draws out the main themes raised by this correspondence, observing its relevance to contemporary debates about migration and political authority.
In recent decades, the field of urban studies has neglected the question of the hinterland: the city's complex, changing relations to the diverse noncity landscapes that support urban life. Neil ...Brenner and Nikos Katsikis of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design argue that this ‘hinterland question’ remains essential, but must also be radically reimagined under contemporary conditions.
War Triptych Linke, Gabriele M.
The European journal of life writing,
03/2023, Letnik:
12
Journal Article
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This three-part collection of personal memories was inspired by Otto Dix's triptych ‘The War’ (1929-1932). The horrors of war and presence of death Dix exposed in his painting form the implicit point ...of reference for three short stories of reconciliation in and after the Second World War. The three auto/biographical memories by and ‘as told to’ the author celebrate forgiveness and humaneness among ordinary people in and after times of war as the one way to survive and continue life after the pain and losses caused by war, which are not part of the stories. The condensed form of the triptych recalls Dix's painting as well as the sacredness of suffering and reconciliation as symbolized by conventional Crucifixion triptychs.
Can hedging be applied to non-Asia-Pacific regions and historical contexts? And, to what extent did Brazil operationalize hedging behavior during the Second World War? Taking these questions, the ...purpose of this paper is to expand the discourse on hedging twofold: First, to employ it within a South American context; second, to verify hedging historically as a widespread strategic unit-level behavior of small and middle powers amid systemic-level great power competitions. Here, by unboxing Brazil’s hedging behavior during the Second World War, specifically President Getúlio Vargas’s ‘ equidistância pragmática’ (pragmatic equidistance) coping strategy, it is found that Brazil employed hedging behavior with omnidirectional engagement with both the United States and Nazi Germany, yet later abandoned this strategy to fully align with Washington and the Allies in 1942, once Brazilian security and economic interests were aligned.
This thesis analyses the European Postal and Telecommunications Union, founded in Vienna in October 1942 under the leadership of the Axis powers. Both technocratic internationalism and the propaganda ...term ‘New Europe’ found points of contact there. The German postal administration authority used the union to extend Germany’s domestic postal system to intra-European postal services and to ensure German supremacy in the new postal Europe. After the war, a respective regional postal organisation was founded in both the Eastern and Western European blocs in the late 1950s. The content of the standardisation envisaged through this measure did not differ much in both blocs, but the way in which the standardisation was carried out did.
The Peoples' War? Wilson, Alexander; Hammond, Richard; Fennell, Jonathan
2022, 2022-11-15
eBook
The Peoples' War? offers alternative approaches to the history of the Second World War, the changes that it catalyzed, and how it is remembered. The volume challenges the nationally unifying ...narrative of the war as a "Peoples' War" and explores the event as a global experience.
O presente artigo tem como objetivo problematizar as matérias jornalísticas do periódico Diário da Tarde sobre os suábios do Danúbio, entre 1951 e 1972, estabelecidos em Guarapuava (Paraná), a partir ...dos Estudos Culturais. A relevância dessa abordagem se deve ao referido periódico, fundado em 1889, ser um dos mais duradouros do Paraná, acompanhando os imigrantes do segundo pós-guerra a partir de diferentes enfoques. E o grupo imigratório ser o mais numeroso que se deslocou ao Brasil durante no período. Constata-se que ele abordou a chegada, as práticas desenvolvidas nas lavouras de trigo e o folclore, e discursos oficiais sobre eles.
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