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_aD804.47 _b.J83 2023 |
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_aJudd, Robin, _eauthor. |
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_aBetween two worlds : _bJewish war brides after the Holocaust / _cRobin Judd. |
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_aChapel Hill : _bThe University of North Carolina Press, _c2023. |
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_a239 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index. | ||
| 520 | _a"Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed-from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom-and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the chaplains who officiated their weddings, the Allied authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples' fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captures how the exhilaration of the brides' early romances coexisted with survivor's guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land"-- | ||
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