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- Release Year
- 2017
- Book Title
- Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in Amer...
- ISBN
- 9781557537843
- Publication Name
- Rebuilt from Broken Glass : a German Jewish Life Remade in America
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Series
- Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of the Jewish people's exodus from tyranny. When the Nazis came to power, the wide-eyed boy and his family found themselves living a twentieth-century version of that exodus, escaping oppression and persecution in Germany for Cuba and ultimately a life of freedom and happiness in the United States. Behrend's childhood came to a crashing end with Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) and his father's harrowing internment at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But he would not be defined by these harrowing circumstances. Behrend would go on to experience brushes with history involving the defeated Germans. By the age of twenty, he had run a POW camp full of Nazis, been an instructor in a program aimed at denazifying specially selected prisoners, and been assigned by the U.S. Army to watch over Wernher von Braun, the designer of the V-2 rocket that terrorized Europe and later chief architect of the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon. Behrend went from a sheltered life of wealth in a long-gone, old-world Germany, dwelling in the gilded compound once belonging to the manufacturer of the zeppelin airships, to a poor Jewish immigrant in New York City learning English from Humphrey Bogart films. Upon returning from service in the U.S. Army, he rose out of poverty, built a successful business in Manhattan, and returned to visit Germany a dozen times, giving him unique perspective into Germany's attempts to surmount its Nazi past.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Purdue University Press
ISBN-10
1557537844
ISBN-13
9781557537843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229574256
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Rebuilt from Broken Glass : a German Jewish Life Remade in America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds134.42.B44a3 2017
Reviews
Rebuilt From Broken Glass is, after all, not simply a memoir about family and faith, but a work of history, written by an eyewitness., "Rebuilt From Broken Glass is, after all, not simply a memoir about family and faith, but a work of history, written by an eyewitness." -- Kevin Riordan , The Philadelphia Inquirer
Table of Content
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Scholarly Introduction and a Call for Scholarship Chapter 1: Growing Up in Germany Chapter 2: Kristallnacht and Sachsenhausen Chapter 3: Biding Time in Cuba Chapter 4: A New Life in New York Chapter 5: A King on Riverside Drive Chapter 6: Tales of the Unlikely Soldier Chapter 7: Finding My Way in New York Chapter 8: Tales of Other Escapes Chapter 9: Germany through an Older Man?s Eyes Chapter 10: Looking Back
Copyright Date
2017
Topic
General, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Lccn
2017-012198
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
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