RT Review
T1 Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family's Untold Story, Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), xiv + 331 pp., hardcover 29.99, e-book available
JF Holocaust and genocide studies
VO 26
IS 3
SP 478
OP 480
A1 Large, David Clay
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1814480978
AB “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” What Leo Tolstoy famously tells us at the beginning of Anna Karenina about families in general applies with particular poignancy to German-Jewish family life during the Third Reich. Those Jewish families were all, of course, profoundly “unhappy” during the Hitler years, but the manner in which they responded to the common catastrophe that befell them, while inevitably displaying some overarching similarities, also betrayed subtle but significant differentiation—that uniqueness we call human.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/hgs/dcs069