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Essays on German Jewish history and emigration to the USA, most of them published previously. Partial contents: Jews and Judaeophobia in Early Modern History (24-41); The Pattern of Emancipation: Prussia, 1815-1848 (42-65); Liberalism and Conservatism in Ideology and Legislation before 1848 (66-78); Jewish Reactions to the Rise of Antisemitism before the Third Reich (79-91); Jewish Attitudes in the Jewish Press [Pp. 121-141 contain a list of German Jewish periodicals.] (95-141); Persecution and Resettlement (142-185); Immigration - Worldwide (186-244). The rest of the book is devoted to American attitudes towards immigrants, and Jewish immigrants in particular, and the integration of immigrants into American life. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ; Through presentation of more than 400 documents in seven chapters, attempts to clarify the history of the emigration and expulsion of German Jews. Contents: Pt. 1: "Programs and Policies until 1937": Special Laws, Emigration, Expulsion, and Extermination: Antisemitic Programs Concerning the "Solution of the Jewish Question", 1879-1932 (13-57); Nazi "Seizure of Power" and Creation of Pressure to Emigrate: Anti-Jewish Policy of Party and Government, 1933-1936 (59-130); The Reaction of German Jewry, 1933-1937: Political Defense and the Organization of Self-Help and Emigration (131-238); The Progressive Pauperization of German Jewry: Unresolved Antagonism between the Proclaimed "Solution of the Jewish Question by Emigration" and Actual Politics until 1937 (239-286). - Pt. 2: "Restrictions on Emigration and Deportation to Eastern Europe": Nazi Refugees Face a Closed World: International Activities to Solve the Problem of Asylum and Immigration, 1933-1939 (287-405); Expropriation, Forced Emigration, and Pogrom, 1938-39: From "Orderly Emigration" to Panic Flight (407-513); Towards the End of Jewish Emigration in Nazi-Controlled Europe: From the Rise of the SD to Exclusive Control of the "Jewish Question" until the Turn to Genocide, 1933-1942 (515-663). Pp. 665-726 contain a list of the documents and their origins, and a cumulative index. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Title Jewish immigrants of the Nazi period in the USA / Herbert A. Strauss, editor.
Contributors Strauss, Herbert Arthur
Siegel, Steven Wayne, 1946-
Friedlander, Henry, 1930-2012
Schwartz, Daniel R.
Lessing, Joan C.
Rohrbaugh, Dennis
Kampe, Norbert, 1948-
Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration
Publisher New York : K.G. Saur
Creation Date 1978-1992
Notes "Sponsored by the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York".
Content Contents:
v. 1. Archival resources / compiled by Steven W. Siegel. 1978.
v. 2. Classified and annotated bibliography of books and articles on the immigration and acculturation of Jews from Central Europe to the USA since 1933 / compiled by Henry Friedlander [et al.]. 1981.
v. 3/pt. 1. Guide to the oral history collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York / compiled by Joan C. Lessing. 1982.
v. 3/pt. 2. Classified list of articles concerning emigration in Germany : Jewish periodicals jan.30, 1933 to nov.9, 1938 / compiled by Daniel R. Schwartz, with Daniel S. Niederland. 1982.
v. 4. Jewish emigration from Germany 1933-1942 : a documentary history / edited by Norbert Kampe. 1992.
--pt. 1. Programs and policies until 1937. 1992.
--pt. 2. Restriction on emigration and deportation to Eastern Europe. 1992.
v. 5. The individual and collective experience of German-Jewish immigrants 1933-1984 : an oral history record / compiled by Dennis Rohrbaugh. 1986.
v. 6. Essays on the history, persecution, and emigration of German Jews / von [sic] Herbert A. Strauss. 1987.
Extent 6 v. in 8
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990005212860205171

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