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De auteur geeft de getuigenissen van een zestigtal kinderen en situeert hun belevenissen in een historische context. Ze vertelt hun leven en probeert hun gevoelens, tijdens en na de oorlog, tot op de dag van vandaag, te begrijpen. Tegelijk beschrijft ze het verdriet van de ouders, de opvangstructuur, de beweegredenen van het gastgezin, de rol van het joodse en niet-joodse verzet en behandelt ze de problemen waarmee de kinderen zich achteraf, na de oorlog, geconfronteerd zien. Verslagen en historisch materiaal wisselen met elkaar af. De gebeurtenissen, soms in de vorm van dialogen, berusten op historische feiten.
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David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these years. From his account emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city and the contingent lives of resisters, collaborators, occupiers, and victims who, unlike us, could not know how the story would end.
History of France --- anno 1940-1949 --- Paris --- World War, 1939-1945 --- France --- Paris (France) --- History
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The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in wake of the Holocaust. Through the thought of the Ludwig Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, J.M. Bernstein, and Charles Taylor, Ashkenazy uncovers the importance and significance of such concepts as transcendence, lose, self, other, love, and home for establishing and maintaining a human life and world, and recovering it, should it be lost. Written with both clarity and academic rigour, this book offers novel ideas, firmly grounded in existing philosophical literature, and is intended for both professional scholars and general readers of Améry.
Philosophy --- History --- filosofie --- Tweede Wereldoorlog --- holocaust --- anno 1940-1949 --- Europe --- Military campaigns. --- War.
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Palestinian Arabs --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- National movements --- Photography --- anno 1940-1949 --- Israel --- Palestine
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In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography.
History of Germany and Austria --- History as a science --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1930-1939 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Historiography. --- Historiographie
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When the Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic György Lukács returned to Hungary from Moscow after World War II, he engaged in a highly active phase of writing and speaking about the democratic culture needed to exorcise the remnants of fascism and to create the conditions for the advance of socialism in Central Europe. His essays of the period, including the influential volume Literature and Democracy , appear here for the first time in English translation. Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics and social history, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, these essays offer a new look at one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century.
Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- anno 1940-1949 --- Hungary --- Socialism and culture. --- Socialism and literature. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern --- Literature and socialism --- Culture and socialism --- Culture
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Adopting a systematic yet non-technical approach. Jacob Metzer's book is the first to analyse the divided economy of Mandatory Palestine from the viewpoints of modern economic history and development economics. While the existing literature has tended to focus on the Jewish economy, this book explores the socio-economic attributes of both the Arab and Jewish communities within the complex political economy of the period. A concluding chapter reviews the uneasy record of Arab-Jewish economic coexistence in the area of Mandatory Palestine, composed of present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The book makes a significant contribution to the economic history of the modern Middle East and to an understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will appeal to economic historians, development economists and to scholars in the related fields of social and political history.
History of Asia --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Israel --- Palestine --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Jews --- Palestinian Arabs --- Economic conditions.
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The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented account of this exodus. In this greatly expanded translation of the 1998 German edition, Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze describes the flight of more than 140 mathematicians, their reasons for leaving, the political and economic issues involved, the reception of these emigrants by various countries, and the emigrants' continuing contributions to mathematics. The influx of these brilliant thinkers to other nations profoundly reconfigured the mathematics world and vaulted the United States into a new leadership role in mathematics research. Based on archival sources that have never been examined before, the book discusses the preeminent emigrant mathematicians of the period, including Emmy Noether, John von Neumann, Hermann Weyl, and many others. The author explores the mechanisms of the expulsion of mathematicians from Germany, the emigrants' acculturation to their new host countries, and the fates of those mathematicians forced to stay behind. The book reveals the alienation and solidarity of the emigrants, and investigates the global development of mathematics as a consequence of their radical migration. An in-depth yet accessible look at mathematics both as a scientific enterprise and human endeavor, Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany provides a vivid picture of a critical chapter in the history of international science.
Mathematics --- Immigrants --- Germans --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Mathematicians --- Math --- Science --- Ethnology --- Scientists --- History --- Refugees --- Germany --- Emigration and immigration --- Mathematician. Statistician. Logici --- anno 1940-1949
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In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, WÅ?adysÅ?aw Szlengel, Zofia NaÅ?kowska, CzesÅ?aw MiÅ?osz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time.
Reality in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Polish literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1940-1949 --- Poland
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History - General --- History & Archaeology --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Jewish religion --- Polemology --- History --- anno 1940-1949 --- Judaism --- Nazism --- War victims --- Book --- Concentration camps
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