Shattered Spaces - Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland

Informationen zum Autor Michael Meng is Assistant Professor of History at Clemson University. Klappentext After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years, is the story this book tells. Zusammenfassung After the Holocaust! the empty! silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues! cemeteries! and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war! and how Germans! Poles! and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years! is the story this book tells.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Meng, Meng Michael
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780674053038
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05303-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, Germany, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1940 to c 1949, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities