Photography, Migration and Identity A German-Jewish-American Story /

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, this Palgrave Pivot explores how these refugees made sense of that experience. For many German Jews, t...

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Main Author: Umbach, Maiken (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Migration History
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945.
Historiography.
Photography.
Emigration and immigration.
Europe, Central-History.
Civilization-History.
ISBN:9783030007843
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Picturing Global Threads
  • 2. Jewish Identities and Photography
  • 3. Jewish Photography and the Pictorial Culture of Nazi Germany
  • 4. Picturing Emigration
  • 5. Photography, Identity, and Longing in the United States
  • 6. Exile, Memory, and Irony.

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