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ISBN: HB: 9780300244250

Yale University Press

February 2020

376 pp.

23.5x15.6 cm

11 black&white illus.

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£35,00
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Hitler's Jewish Refugees

Hope and Anxiety in Portugal

This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees' inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

About the Author

Marion Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of "Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany" and a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award.