Steven lowenstein foreword (1 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, xx + 367pp + 32 pages of b&w photos, NOT ex-library. Shipping weight over 1kg. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Gently shelfworn untorn dust jacket. -- This book is the full transcript of Manfred Kirchheimer's acclaimed 1985 documentary film, which captures the voices and memories of a specific community: German-Jewish refugees from the Third Reich who settled in Washington Heights, New York. Through intimate interviews, primarily with his own family and friends, Kirchheimer explores the profound paradox of their experience: their enduring love for the German culture of their youth ("we were so beloved") set against the reality of Nazi persecution and their subsequent lives as assimilated Americans. The text serves as a powerful oral history, delving into complex questions of identity, survival, acculturation, and the psychological legacy of trauma.…