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100 1 $aGay, Ruth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91080962
245 10 $aSafe among the Germans :$bliberated Jews after World War II /$cRuth Gay.
260 $aNew Haven, Conn. :$bYale University Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axiv, 347 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographic references (p. 309-330) and index.
520 1 $a"This book tells the story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation soon found that their homeland had become a new killing ground where some 1,500 Jews were murdered in pogroms between 1945 and 1947.
520 8 $aFacing death at home, and with Palestine and the rest of the world largely closed to them, they looked for a place to be safe and found it in the shelter of the Allied Occupation Forces in Germany.".
520 8 $a"Bottled up for the next three years in displaced persons camps, they created the most poignant - and the last - episode of Yiddish-speaking culture: a final incandescent moment that played itself out on German soil. When the camps emptied in 1948 after the establishment of Israel and with special legislation in the United States, the Jews dispersed. But the loss of their center meant the end of a thousand years of Eastern European Jewish culture.".
520 8 $a"By 1950 a little community of 20,000 Jews remained in Germany: 8,000 native German Jews and 12,000 from Eastern Europe. Ruth Gay's enthralling account tells of their contrasting lives in the two postwar Germanies. After the fall of Communism, the Jewish community was suddenly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of former Soviet Jews. Now there are some 100,000 Jews in Germany.
520 8 $aThe old, somewhat nostalgic life of the first postwar decades is being swept aside by radical forces from the Lubavitcher at one end to Reform and feminism at the other. What started in 1945 as a "remnant" community has become a dynamic new center of Jewish life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1945-1990.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070467
650 0 $aHolocaust survivors$zGermany.
650 0 $aJewish refugees$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aJews, East European$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002620
651 0 $aGermany$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105263
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