Practices of Reunification

Susanne Korbel is a senior post-doc at the University of Graz. Among her most important publications are: Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika um 1900 (2021), and the Leo Baeck Insitute Essay Price winning article “Spaces of Gendered Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters.”Philipp Strobl is a historian in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the intersection of knowledge history and migration history. He has published extensively in these fields, including monographs, edited volumes, and articles on migrating knowledge and its impact on societies in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His most recent book A History of Displaced Knowledge was recently published in the Studies in Global Migration History series. He also edited a special issue titled Lost Knowledge and Migration for the Journal of Migration History.

• IntroductionSusanne Korbel and Philipp StroblPart I: Agency and Networks of ContinuationChapter 11945: Surviving and Living in a Divided WorldMichael GehlerChapter 2To Save the Saviors: Reorganizing the Jewish Anarchists Humanitarian Network in Europe, 1945-1950Maria Tarasova ChomardChapter 3Postwar Journeys of Jewish and Polish Refugees from Poland (1940s-1950s)Anna Cichopek-GajrajChapter 4Health As an Obstacle to Resettlement: Jewish Displaced Persons with Disabilities and Health Issues in Pursuit for Self-Determination after the Shoah 1948–1951Johannes GlackPart II: Practices of ReunifcationChapter 5To Those Near and Far: Reconnecting with Family Members after the HolocaustRachel BlumenthalChapter 6Beyond the Camp – New Beginnings and Continuities for Jewish DPs in MunichKlaus HagenChapter 7Luke Wijnberg: The Possibilities of a Single StoryAndrea Wuerth