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Shattered spaces: Jewish sites in Germany and Poland after 1945

This article studies the employment effects of one of the largest forced population movements in history, the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. This episode of forced mass migration provides a unique setting to study the causal effects of immigration. Expellees were not selected on the basis of skills or labor market prospects and, as ethnic Germans, were close substitutes to native West Germans. Expellee inflows substantially reduced native employment. The displacement effect was, however, highly nonlinear and limited to labor market segments with very high inflow rates.

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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Postwar Germany

This book tells a story of Polish and Slovak Holocaust survivors returning to homes that no longer existed in the aftermath of the Second World War. It focuses on their daily efforts to rebuild their lives in the radically changed political and social landscape of post-war Eastern Europe. Such an analysis shifts the perspective from post-war violence and emigration to post-war reconstruction. Using a comparative approach, Anna Cichopek-Gajraj discusses survivors' journeys home, their struggles to retain citizenship and repossess property, their coping with antisemitism, and their efforts to return to 'normality'. She emphasizes the everyday communal and personal experiences of survivors in the context of their relationships with non-Jews. In essence, by focusing on the daily efforts of Polish and Slovak Jews to rebuild their lives, the author investigates the limits of belonging in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust.

Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48

In judischen theosophischen und kabbalistischen Vorstellungen von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit wurde das hebraische Alphabet (Alef-Bet) nicht nur als graphisches Reprasentationssystem der hebraischen Sprache (↗Hebraisch) aufgefasst, sondern galt auch als Trager von symbolischen und metaphysischen Bedeutungen. Mit der Heiligkeit (↗Kadosh) der hebraischen Buchstaben korrespondierte die Stellung von Schreibern heiliger Texte in Antike und Mittelalter, aber auch die Entwicklung von Drucklettern (!Buchdruck). Vor dem Hintergrund der Modernisierung wurde in der judischen Literatur und bildenden Kunst das hebraische Alphabet als letzter Ort der go ttlichen Kraft und gelegentlich der judischen Existenz transzendiert.

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur

This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between gender, genocide, and female agency, the analyzes correct androcentric views of the Second World War and seek to further our understanding of a group that, although crucial to the functioning of the National Socialist regime, has often been overlooked: that of the complicit bystander. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, female refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors analyze women's motivations for enlisting in the National Socialist cause, as well as for their continuing support for the regime and, in some cases, their growing estrangement from it. The readings allow insights into the nature of complicity itself, the emergence of violence in civil society, and the possibility of social justice.

German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War

Europe has a long history of state-led population displacement on ethnic grounds. The nationalist argument of ethnic homogeneity has been a crucial factor in the mapping of the continent. At no time has this been more the case than during and after the Second World War. Both under the aggressive expansionism of the Third Reich and after Germany's defeat, millions were brutally forced out of their homelands. Presenting a history from the top as well as the bottom, People on the Move reconstructs the complex map of forced population displacements that took place across Europe during and immediately after the Second World War.

People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath

»Schleichwege«: Inoffizielle Begegnungen sozialistischer Staatsbürger zwischen 1956 und 1989

"Polska wobec zjednoczenia Niemiec 1989–1991. Dokumenty dyplomatyczne”, red. Włodzimierz Borodziej, współpraca Dominik Pick, Warszawa 2006 : [recenzja] / Jerzy Kochanowski.

"Die polnische Heimatarmee. Geschichte und Mythos der Armia Krajowa seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg", hrsg. von Bernhard Chiari unter Mitarbeit von Jerzy Kochanowski, München 2003 : [recenzja] / Bogdan Musiał, Christoph Klessmann ; tł. Piotr Madajczyk.

Jerzy Kochanowski

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People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath

»Schleichwege«: Inoffizielle Begegnungen sozialistischer Staatsbürger zwischen 1956 und 1989

"Polska wobec zjednoczenia Niemiec 1989–1991. Dokumenty dyplomatyczne”, red. Włodzimierz Borodziej, współpraca Dominik Pick, Warszawa 2006 : [recenzja] / Jerzy Kochanowski.

"Die polnische Heimatarmee. Geschichte und Mythos der Armia Krajowa seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg", hrsg. von Bernhard Chiari unter Mitarbeit von Jerzy Kochanowski, München 2003 : [recenzja] / Bogdan Musiał, Christoph Klessmann ; tł. Piotr Madajczyk.

Przesiedlenie ludności polskiej z kresów wschodnich do Polski, 1944-1947