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We were so beloved : autobiography of a German Jewish community

Title: We were so beloved : autobiography of a German Jewish community / Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer and Manfred Kirchheimer.
Author: Kirchheimer, Gloria DeVidas.
Publication: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	F128.9.J5 K57 1997	Off-site

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Kirchheimer, Manfred.

Description

xx, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The massive terror of November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, forced the German Jews to finally abandon their unrealistic hope that the Nazi persecution would cease. Those who were able to fled their country, the land where they "were so beloved," and proud of their German heritage. More than 20,000 of these German Jews came together in Washington Heights in New York City and created a German Jewish enclave, nicknamed the "Fourth Reich" by their American neighbors.
We Were So Beloved takes Manfred Kirchheimer on a personal quest for answers from his family and friends in Washington Heights. In a series of interviews they recount their stories; stories of bewilderment at betrayal by friends and neighbors, of terror and grief as relatives disappear and families are uprooted, of amazement that this could happen in the highly civilized culture of Germany.

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ISBN

0822939975 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97004824

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Columbia University Libraries