{"product_id":"the-new-life-jewish-students-of-postwar-germany-paperback","title":"The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeremy Varon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish Displaced Persons (DPs) survived in concentration and death camps, in hiding, and as exiles in the Soviet interior. After liberation in the land of their persecutors, some also attended university to fulfill dreams of becoming doctors, engineers, and professionals. In \u003cem\u003eThe New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany, \u003c\/em\u003e Jeremy Varon tells the improbable story of the nearly eight hundred young Jews, mostly from Poland and orphaned by the Holocaust, who studied in universities in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Drawing on interviews he conducted with the Jewish alumni in the United States and Israel and the records of their Student Union, Varon reconstructs how the students built a sense of purpose and a positive vision of the future even as the wounds of the past persisted.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Varon explores the keys to students' renewal, including education itself, the bond they enjoyed with one another as a substitute family, and their efforts both to reconnect with old passions and to revive a near-vanquished European Jewish intelligentsia. \u003cem\u003eThe New Life \u003c\/em\u003ealso explores the relationship between Jews and Germans in occupied Germany. Varon shows how mutual suspicion and resentment dominated interactions between the groups and explores the subtle ways anti-Semitism expressed itself just after the war. Moments of empathy also emerge, in which Germans began to reckon with the Nazi past. Finally, \u003cem\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/em\u003e documents conflicts among Jews as they struggled to chart a collective future, while nationalists, both from Palestine and among DPs, insisted that Zionism needed \"pioneers, not scholars,\" and tried to force the students to quit their studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rigorously researched and passionately written, \u003cem\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to scholars, students, and general readers with interest in the Holocaust, Jewish and German history, the study of trauma, and the experiences of refugees displaced by war and genocide. With liberation nearly seventy years in the past, it is also among the very last studies based on living contact with Holocaust survivors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeremy Varon is associate professor of history at the New School in New York City. He is also author of \u003ci\u003eBringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies\u003c\/i\u003e and is a co-founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 358\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.96 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757798949152,"sku":"9780814339619","price":64.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/61ddf6bd2b7f4d31ef9a565b949dd791.webp?v=1780112098","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-new-life-jewish-students-of-postwar-germany-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}