Space and Time under Persecution : The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich

Guy Miron

ISBN 10: 0226827321 / ISBN 13: 9780226827322

Published by The University Of Chicago Press Sep 2023, 2023

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Neuware - 'The rapid and radical transformations of the Nazi Era challenged the ways German Jews experienced space and time, two of the most fundamental characteristics of human existence. In Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron documents how German Jews came to terms with the harsh challenges of persecution-from social exclusion, economic decline, and relocation to confiscation of their homes, forced labor, and deportation to death in the east-by rethinking their experiences in spatial and temporal terms. Miron first explores the strategies and practices German Jews used to accommodate their shrinking access to public space, in turn reinventing traditional Jewish space and ideas of home. He then turns to how German Jews redesigned the annual calendar, came to terms with the ever-growing need to wait for nearly everything, and developed new interpretations of the past. Miron's insightful analysis reveals how these tactics expressed both the continuous attachment of Jews to key elements of German bourgeois life as well as their struggle to maintain Jewish agency and express Jewish defiance under Nazi persecution'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Space and Time under Persecution : The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich
• Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press Sep 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226827321
• ISBN 13: 9780226827322
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 238W x 160H x 22D millimeters 238 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 542 grams

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Synopsis

A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron.
 
In Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later, forced evictions, labor, and deportation under Nazi rule forever changed German Jews’ experience of space and time. Facing ever-mounting restrictions, German Jews reimagined their worlds—devising new relationships to traditional and personal space, new interpretations of their histories, and even new calendars to measure their days. For Miron, these tactics reveal a Jewish community’s attachment to German bourgeois life as well as their defiant resilience under Nazi persecution.

About the Authors

Guy Miron is professor of history and vice president for academic affairs at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of several books, including The Waning of the Emancipation: Jewish History, Memory, and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary.

Haim Watzman is a Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator. Among his recent translations is Law and Identity in Israel: A Century of Debate by Nir Kedar.