Life and Love in Nazi Prague
«Life and Love in Nazi Prague, a collection of letters written during World War II, provides us with an extraordinary glimpse into the communication mechanisms and survival strategies not of those few who survived but of those many Jews who were murdered. The breathtaking letter exchange between Greek Thessaloniki and Czech Prague, once flourishing Jewish cities trapped under Nazi occupation, forces us to understand how time mattered and how little sense people could have of what nowadays tends to be so obvious.»
Katerina Králová, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University of Pr
Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781788312561
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«Life and Love in Nazi Prague, a collection of letters written during World War II, provides us with an extraordinary glimpse into the communication mechanisms and survival strategies not of those few who survived but of those many Jews who were murdered. The breathtaking letter exchange between Greek Thessaloniki and Czech Prague, once flourishing Jewish cities trapped under Nazi occupation, forces us to understand how time mattered and how little sense people could have of what nowadays tends to be so obvious.»
Katerina Králová, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University of Pr
«Life and Love in Nazi Prague is an excellent publication which, through an outstanding commentary on the letters, allows not only an insight into the hopes and fears of the author, but also a better understanding of the daily life of the Jewish population and of Nazi policy in occupied Prague.»
Judaica Bohemiae (trans by Bloomsbury Publishing)
«Extraordinary and moving ... It is impossible in a short review to do justice to this remarkable book.»
Baroness Quin, The House
«A truly significant and touching addition to the world of Holocaust studies. They tell of a neglected story – that of the everyday life of Jews in Czechoslovakia in the first years of the war… It is a labour of love on their behalf which allows a beautiful love story during the horrors of Nazism to be appreciated by us today.»
Professor Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, University of
«This book is one more remarkable piece in the unknowable and uncompletable jigsaw of Jewry in the 1940s.»
The Jewish Chronicle
«Life and Love opens a window into relations between Jews and non-Jews, which Bader illustrated in discussions of the yellow star. Her letters touch on religion, suicide, family separation, and the place of the institutional Jewish community in the lives of (people identified as) Jews. The collection will be appreciated by scholars and students, and by readers interested in the Holocaust or, perhaps, simply love.»
Holocaust and Genocide Studies