{"product_id":"between-dignity-and-despair-jewish-life-in-nazi-germany-9780195130928","title":"Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween Dignity and Despair\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 underground and endured the fears of nightly bombings and the even greater terror of being discovered by the Nazis. Most were murdered. All were pressed to the limit of human endurance and human loneliness.\u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, \u003cem\u003eBetween Dignity and Despair\u003c\/em\u003e takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarion Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the German History Prize and \u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565479268626,"sku":"9780195130928","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90bdb0d4-e617-4d17-9a82-4b519295c404.jpg?v=1731886074","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/between-dignity-and-despair-jewish-life-in-nazi-germany-9780195130928","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}