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<p><P><b>Between Dignity and Despair</b> draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany.<br> Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of Novemer 1938. Then the flow of emigration turned into a torrent, only to be stopped by the war. By that time Jews had been evicted from their homes, robbed of their possessions and their livelihoods, shunned by their former friends, persecuted by their neighbors, and driven into forced labor. For those trapped in Germany, mere survival became a nightmare of increasingly desperate options. Many took their own lives to retain at least some dignity in death; others went

Who reads Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History)?

Author

Marion A Kaplan; Mazal Holocaust Collection

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199854486

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (297 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13