For Further Reading
Recent works on related themes
| Forgotten or Secret Identities After Long Silence: A Memoir by Helen Fremont (1999, Dell Publishing Company, Inc.) Helen Fremont was raised Roman Catholic in America, only to discover in adulthood that her parents were Jews who had survived the Holocaust. Delving into extraordinary secrets that held her family together in a bond of silence for more than 40 years, the author recounts with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival. A searching inquiry into the meaning of identity, self, and history. The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews - A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage by Trudi Alexy (1994, Harper San Francisco) The author, who was given sanctuary in Spain for two years during WWII in the time of the Holocaust, offers a facinating chronicle of 500 years of Jewish life in Spain, revealing the secret history of Jews there. The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust by Jane Marks (1995, Fawcett Book Group) In riveting first-person accounts, twenty-three adult survivors share the memories many had long suppressed - how they lived in constant danger of discovery, fabricated new identities, and risked life, health and sanity to escape Nazi torture. |
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| The Berlin Ella Lewenz Loved: Berlin between the Wars A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars by Anton Gill Recaptures the Berlin of the Twenties and Thirties, where the world's most exotic talents flourished against a background of decadence, corruption, hyper-inflation and finally fear. Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's by Otto Friedrich (1995, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.) A comprehensive, fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s. |
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| Family History and Genealogy To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come by Bob Greene and D. G. Fulford (1993, Doubleday & Company, Inc.) SourceBook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories by David S. Zubatsky and Irwin M. Berent (1996, Avotaynu, Inc.) Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy by Angelika G. Ellmann-Kruger and Edward David Luft (1998, Avotaynu, Inc.) Names and Their Histories by Isaac Taylor (1972, Gordon Press Publishers) |
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| German or Jewish? The Identity of the German Jews and their place in German Society The Jews and Germany: From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitz, Vol. 14 by Enzo Traverso and Daniel Weissbort, translator (1995, University of Nebraska Press) Debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that, to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans. The Jewish Response to German Culture from the Enlightenment to the Second World War Edited by Jehuda Reinharz and Walter Schatzberg (1991, University Press of New England) Based on papers delivered at an international historical conference at Clark University, these essays explore the unique symbiosis between Jews and German culture, examining such themes as the tension between emancipation and Jewish identity, the identification of Jews with the upheavals that transformed Germany into a dynamic industrial society, and the large Jewish contribution to the ``nervous splendor'' of fin de siecle Vienna. Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why so Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany by John Van Houten Dippel (1996, Basic Books) Why so many German Jews appeared reluctant to leave their homeland and escape the Nazi terror is one of the great unsolved questions of the Holocaust. Examines diaries, letters, and other documents written before 1939 in an attempt to discover an answer uncolored by hindsight. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (1996, Knopf) Published to vast controversy and acclaim, this groundbreaking work lays to rest one of the most persistent myths about the Holocaust: that most Germans were either ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews or participated in it reluctantly. Goldhagen's compelling body of evidence reveals the Final Solution was a national endeavor that engaged the energies and enthusiasm of thousands of ordinary German citizens. |
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| Film, the Holocaust, and Jewish Identity Indelible Images: Film and the Holocaust by Annette Insdorf (1989, Cambridge University Press) Analyzes the aesthetics and moral values of 125 films focusing on the Holocaust. The Holocaust in American Film by Judith E. Doneson (1987, Jewish Publication Society) Argues that the representation of the Holocaust has been influenced by such American social issues as McCarthyism, civil rights, Vietnam, and black-Jewish tensions The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives by Charles L. Gellert (1989, U.S. National Archives) Filmography of the National Archives —583 holdings of government-produced shorts and newsreel footage from WWII, including brief descriptions. Useful for anyone interested in producing documentary films on the Holocaust, history of Israel, or the American Jewish experience. Jewish Film Directory Edited by Matthew Stevens (1992, Greenwood Publishing Group) A catalogue and index of over 1,200 films —documentaries, foreign language films, Hollywood features, film testimony, made-for-television works, educational/instructional films, and Yiddish cinema —from around the world about Jews and Jewish history, culture, personalities, and issues. Independent Jewish Film by Janis Plotkin, Caroline Libresco, and Josh Feiger (1996, SF Jewish Film Festival) A guide to over 250 Jewish-subject films —many of them about discovering family history —featured in the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival since 1980. |
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