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📢 New Book Alert!
📚'No Life Without You: #Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s' ed. by Frank Felsenstein w/intro by Rachel Pistol.
Discover the journey of Ernst Moritz & Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, #GermanJewish refugees navigating the years before #WWII.
Abridged in English from the original German, the correspondence and diaries have been expertly compiled and annotated by their only son who preserves his parents’ love story in their own words.
This volume offers insights into the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by #German #Jews as a targeted community. It affords a unique appreciation of the impact of #historical and #sociopolitical upheavals on the lives of a persecuted minority.
A scholarly introduction by Rachel Pistol draws out the main themes raised by this correspondence, observing its relevance to contemporary debates about #migration and #political authority.