Practices of Reunification

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The Continuation of Refugee Life After 1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl, Austria) Korbel, Susanne (Universitat Graz, Germany) Strobl, Philipp (University of Hildesheim

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The volume explores the role of refugees and Displaced Persons (DPs) in Europe after 1945. It expands conventional narratives about post-National Socialist societies, which are characterized by victim myths, narratives of Trümmerfrauen (rubble women), and the reconstruction of supposedly homogeneous societies.Using analyses informed by new approaches in cultural studies and digital humanities, the authors enhance studies of refugees and DPs’ ways of living and their interactions with their surrounding societies. Relying on microhistorical perspectives, the case studies are focusing on both, post-National Socialist societies and exile communities and thus contribute to a better understanding of everyday life. The book locates itself at the intersection of Migration Studies, Gender Studies, Emotion Studies, and the History of Knowledge and focuses on the following key questions: How did family members reconnect with individuals liberated from concentration camps? How did they communicate about the choice of new places to live? How did exile communities reorganize themselves after the end of the war?This volume explores diverse experiences in the post-1945 world that have been shaping not only the European societies but have also been influencing our present legal and societal understandings and interpretations on a global scale.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-12-16
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies for the International Society for Cultural History
Antal sidor216
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032721309

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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 by Brill 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