Between Two Worlds : Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judd, Robin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Marriage.

Holocaust survivors.

Intercountry marriage--History--20th century.

Intercountry marriage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. I Thought Liberation Would Be a Happy Story: The War Ends

2. I Found a Chavera! Jewish Encounters in Jewish Spaces

3. Forgetting the "Stupid Crazy World": Courtships and Marriage

4. Proving to Be a Headache: Immigration

5. Who Deserves More Rights than a Jewish Girl? Exclusion

6. A Home of One's Own: The Early Years

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798890863751

9781469675466

1469675463

OCLC:

1409696615