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  • Traces of a Jewish Artist

    The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit

    de Kerry Wallach ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biography ... Leer más

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  • Hitler at Home

    A look at Adolf Hitler's residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator's private persona both within Germany and abroad.Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the ... Leer más

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  • Between Dignity and Despair

    Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

    Series series Studies in Jewish History
    Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily ... Leer más

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  • Culture in Nazi Germany

    " A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich . . . rich in detail and documentation." ( Kirkus Reviews)Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the ... Leer más

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  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    de Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... Leer más

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  • Bauhaus

    Design school modernism architecture 20th century

    The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over the growth of the movement: Walter Gropius, from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer, from 1928 to 1930, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, from 1930 to 1933. Founded ... Leer más

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  • In Hitler's Munich

    Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism

    Traducido por Jeremiah Riemer ...
    From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically ... Leer más

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  • Leni Riefenstahl

    A Life

    Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl's uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched—until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for two of the films she made for him, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, Riefenstahl's demanding and obsessive style introduced unusual angles, new ... Leer más

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  • Kafka

    The Early Years

    de Reiner Stach ...
    Traducido por Shelley Frisch ...
    The eagerly anticipated final volume of the award-winning, definitive biography of Franz KafkaHow did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka ... Leer más

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  • The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

    Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

    The untold story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the “Final Solution.”“A penetrating chronicle . . . deftly links art history, psychiatry, and Hitler’s ideology to devastating effect.”—The Wall Street JournalAs a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the ... Leer más

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  • The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

    Traducido por Anthony David ...
    Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence.Arendt and Scholem met in 1932 in Berlin and quickly bonded over their mutual admiration for and friendship with Walter Benjamin. They ... Leer más

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  • Berlin

    Series series Cityscopes
    Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe’s youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today’s diversity – refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East and West – emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge and contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past.Berlin is a comprehensive short history and portrait ... Leer más

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