No Life Without You: Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s

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dc.contributor.editorFelsenstein, Franklin
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T13:34:23Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T13:34:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-25
dc.date.updated2024-05-16T13:34:22Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0334
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649453
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649460
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649477
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649514
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649484
dc.identifier.otherebc98c6e-bec5-4869-b5c9-c1162fd00710
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/13
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectBGH
dc.subjectBJ
dc.subjectJFFD
dc.subjectJFSR1
dc.subjectJPFQ
dc.subjectBIO026000
dc.subjectBIO037000
dc.subjectHIS022000
dc.subjectHIS027100
dc.subjectLCO011000
dc.subjectPOL042030
dc.subjectSOC066000
dc.subjectDNC
dc.subjectDND
dc.subjectJPHX
dc.subjectNHTB
dc.subjectNHWR7
dc.subjectDS134.4
dc.subjectBiography
dc.subjectEuropean Studies: German Studies
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subject1930s Germany
dc.subjectEngland
dc.subjectJewish persecution
dc.subjectPersonal correspondence
dc.subjectRefugees
dc.subjectWorld War 2
dc.titleNo Life Without You: Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
dcterms.accessRightsEmbargo: none
organization.legalNameBall State University

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