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
“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 cou...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 478-480 |
| Review of: | Life and loss in the shadow of the Holocaust (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011) (Large, David Clay)
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| Summary: | “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. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs069 |