Title: Two lives in uncertain times : facing the challenges of the 20th century as scholars and citizens /
Authors: Iggers, Wilma.; Iggers, Georg G.
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Iggers, Wilma.; Iggers, Georg G.; Jews Czech Republic Bohemia Biography.; Jews Germany Hamburg Biography.; Jewish refugees United States Biography; Jewish college teachers United States Biography.; Reconciliation History; Germany Ethnic relations.; Czech Republic Ethnic relations.
Abstract: "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.
Contents: From Bohemia to Canada (1921-1942) -- From Hamburg to Richmond (1926-1944) -- Graduate studies in Chicago and New York (1943-1949) -- The struggle against racial segregation : Little Rock and New Orleans (1950-1960) -- Return to Europe (1960-1962) -- Turbulent years in Buffalo (1962-1970) -- The seventies and eighties (1970-1990) -- Our contacts with East Germany (1966-1990) -- Private life and ties to Bohemia (1970-2006) -- After the Cold War (1990-2006).