Two Lives in Uncertain Times

Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens

Autor: Wilma Iggers, Georg G. Iggers

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Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the...

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Autor

Wilma Iggers, Georg G. Iggers

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2006

Pagini

230

EAN

9781845451400

ISBN

1845451406

Enbook ID

05097723

Editura

Berghahn Books

Greutate

318

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 13

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Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Gottingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.

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