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050 00 $aF158.53$b.H63 2015
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100 1 $aHoeber, Johannes U.,$d1904-1977,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAgainst time :$bletters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939 /$c[Johannes U. Hoeber and Elfriede Fischer Hoeber ; translated and edited by] Francis W. Hoeber.
246 3 $aAgainst time, letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939
246 30 $aLetters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939
264 1 $aPhiladelphia :$bAmerican Philosophical Society Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $avii, 328 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aTransactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge ;$vv. 105, pt. 1
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA folder full of old letters -- Johannes and Elfriede -- Getting out, Part I -- Waiting -- Getting to Philadelphia -- Philadelphia -- Getting "in" -- Jo has a job -- Uncle Karl says no -- True friends -- Uncle Karl says yes -- Getting out, Part II -- Epilogue: A family in America.
520 $aJohannes Höber left Nazi Germany for America on November 12, 1938. His wife Elfriede and their nine-year-old daughter Susanne were unable to leave until September of the following year, after the outbreak of World War II. Fifty years later, Johannes and Elfriede's son found an old folder containing the long letters they exchanged during the many months there were separated. In these letters, Elfriede describes the worsening situation in Germany and Johannes describes his flight from Europe and his excited entry into American life. [This book] collects 135 of those letters with an introduction, extensive notes, and an epilogue that sets the letters in the context of their time. The letters tell the story of a couple driven from their home by the Nazis and forced to make a new life in a new country. In these letters you will discover two fine, passionate, and very different writers. Johannes' letters are carefully organized and precise, self-conscious and at the same time full of colorful detail and rich accounts of people, places, and events that convey his deep interest in the new world he observed. Elfriede's letters sometimes seem slightly chaotic, but they convey a full sense of her strong feelings as she navigated daily life in a frighteningly transformed Germany. Her letters are often laced with a breezy wit, though the humor is often ironic and sometimes witheringly sarcastic. Together, the letters portray the intense relationship of a fascinating couple in a critical time. [This book] is an important historical resource that reads like a novel. -- Inside cover flap.
600 10 $aHoeber, Johannes U.,$d1904-1977$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aGerman Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vBiography.
600 10 $aHoeber, Elfriede Fischer,$d1904-1999$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vBiography.
651 0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aPolitical refugees$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aGermany$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century.
630 00 $aFrankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt (Frankfurt am Main, Germany : Daily)$xEmployees$vBiography.
651 0 $aDüsseldorf (Germany)$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
651 0 $aDüsseldorf (Germany)$vBiography.
700 1 $aHoeber, Elfriede Fischer,$d1904-1999,$eauthor.
700 1 $aHoeber, Francis W.,$etranslator,$eeditor.
830 0 $aTransactions of the American Philosophical Society ;$vv. 105, pt. 1.$x0065-9746
852 00 $bglx$hF158.53$i.H63 2015