The new life
Subtitle: Jewish students of postwar Germany
By: Jeremy Varon
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Detroit, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780814339619; 9780814339626
Subjects: Education (Higher); Jews; Student; Jewish students; History; Holocaust survivors; Juden
Description: Examines the experiences of Jewish university students, survivors of the Holocaust who either remained as displaced persons in Germany or fled eastern Europe to the parts of Germany occupied by western powers as refugees--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: "I knew one thing; title: I have to study" : early education and dreams of the future; title: "You survive because you survive" : occupation, exile, and the Holocaust; title: "We create" : the origins and evolution of the Jewish Students' Union; title: "The new life" : education and renewal in occupied Germany; title: "Surviving survival" : living with the Holocaust and among the Germans; title: "Pioneers, not scholars" : the Jewish students and Zionism.