Wilma Iggers (1921-2025), born in the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia. She and her family moved to Canada in 1938. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McMaster University in Canada and, in 1952, a PhD in Germanics from the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago, she met Georg Iggers, and the couple were married in 1948.She was Professor emerita of German at Canisius College (Buffalo). Her publications include Karl Kraus, A Viennese Cultural Critic of the Twentieth Century (1967) and Women of Prague (Berghahn, 1995).

• PrefaceChapter 1. From Bohemia to Canada (1921–1942)Chapter 2. From Hamburg to Richmond (1926–1944)Chapter 3. Graduate Studies in Chicago and New York (1943–1949)Chapter 4. The Struggle against Racial Segregation: Little Rock and New Orleans (1950–1960)Chapter 5. Return to Europe (1960–1962)Chapter 6. Turbulent Years in Buffalo (1962–1970)Chapter 7. The Seventies and Eighties (1970–1990)Chapter 8. Our Contacts with East Germany (1966–1990)Chapter 9. Private Life and Ties to Bohemia (1970–2006)Chapter 10. After the Cold War (1990–2006)Chapter 11. ConclusionIndex

Reactions to the German edition:“What among the advantages of this book has to be counted is the fact that the authors were fully aware of the political and social situation during the various stages of their lives and able to reflect on it.” • H-German (H-Net)

Wilma Iggers (1921-2025), born in the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia. She and her family moved to Canada in 1938. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McMaster University in Canada and, in 1952, a PhD in Germanics from the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago, she met Georg Iggers, and the couple were married in 1948.She was Professor emerita of German at Canisius College (Buffalo). Her publications include Karl Kraus, A Viennese Cultural Critic of the Twentieth Century (1967) and Women of Prague (Berghahn, 1995).

• PrefaceChapter 1. From Bohemia to Canada (1921–1942)Chapter 2. From Hamburg to Richmond (1926–1944)Chapter 3. Graduate Studies in Chicago and New York (1943–1949)Chapter 4. The Struggle against Racial Segregation: Little Rock and New Orleans (1950–1960)Chapter 5. Return to Europe (1960–1962)Chapter 6. Turbulent Years in Buffalo (1962–1970)Chapter 7. The Seventies and Eighties (1970–1990)Chapter 8. Our Contacts with East Germany (1966–1990)Chapter 9. Private Life and Ties to Bohemia (1970–2006)Chapter 10. After the Cold War (1990–2006)Chapter 11. ConclusionIndex

Reactions to the German edition:“What among the advantages of this book has to be counted is the fact that the authors were fully aware of the political and social situation during the various stages of their lives and able to reflect on it.” • H-German (H-Net)

Wilma Iggers (1921-2025), born in the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia. She and her family moved to Canada in 1938. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McMaster University in Canada and, in 1952, a PhD in Germanics from the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago, she met Georg Iggers, and the couple were married in 1948.She was Professor emerita of German at Canisius College (Buffalo). Her publications include Karl Kraus, A Viennese Cultural Critic of the Twentieth Century (1967) and Women of Prague (Berghahn, 1995).

• PrefaceChapter 1. From Bohemia to Canada (1921–1942)Chapter 2. From Hamburg to Richmond (1926–1944)Chapter 3. Graduate Studies in Chicago and New York (1943–1949)Chapter 4. The Struggle against Racial Segregation: Little Rock and New Orleans (1950–1960)Chapter 5. Return to Europe (1960–1962)Chapter 6. Turbulent Years in Buffalo (1962–1970)Chapter 7. The Seventies and Eighties (1970–1990)Chapter 8. Our Contacts with East Germany (1966–1990)Chapter 9. Private Life and Ties to Bohemia (1970–2006)Chapter 10. After the Cold War (1990–2006)Chapter 11. ConclusionIndex

Reactions to the German edition:“What among the advantages of this book has to be counted is the fact that the authors were fully aware of the political and social situation during the various stages of their lives and able to reflect on it.” • H-German (H-Net)