Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
Philo Bregstein and Salvador Bloemgarten, editors translated from the Dutch by Wanda Boeke | | ISBN: 978-0-8419-1425-4 $39.95 |
| 2004/245 pages/LC: 2004054222 Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers
Includes photos |
DESCRIPTION
National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
When the Germans overpowered the Netherlands in 1940, there were some 140,000 Dutch citizens who were considered Jews by Nationalist Socialist standards; more than half of them, about 80,000, lived in Amsterdam. Remembering Jewish Amsterdam is a celebration of their lives. The book consists of selections from seventy-seven interviews with Holocaust survivors as they reminisced about those earlier days. The editors have used this rich material to compose a collective mosaic of memories that provides a fascinating view of Jewish life in Amsterdam during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Philo Bregstein is a Dutch novelist, dramatist, and filmmaker. Salvador Bloemgarten’s most recent book is a biography of Hartog de Lémon (1755-1823), the first European Jew to be elected a parliamentary representative.
CONTENTS
- A Historical Perspective—the Editors.
- OCCUPATIONS.
- Street Vending. Retail and Wholesale.
- Trades.
- Professions.
- RELIGION.
- Practice.
- Music.
- Synagogues and Rabbis.
- Education.
- Philanthropy.
- THE OLD JEWISH QUARTER.
- Living and Housing Conditions.
- EMANCIPATION.
- Politics and the Labor Movement.
- Culture and Upbringing.
- Socialism and Religion.
- Liberals and Liberal Democrats.
- New Neighborhoods.
- JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
- Anti-Semitism.
- Integration and Assimilation.
- ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION.
- Theater and Music.
- The Lighter Muse.
- Sports.
- IMMIGRATION.
- Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe.
- German Jews after 1933.
- ZIONISM.
- In General.
- Socialist Zionism.
- War.
- The Years Prior to 1940.
- 1940–1945.
- After 1945.
"I read this book with fascination . . . Remembering does in fact offer a striking portrait of what Amsterdam meant to Jews and what Jews meant to Amsterdam."—Peter Van der Linden, De nieuwe Linie
"Richly accompanied by illustrations, this recommended text is suitable for students, as well as scholars interested in early twentieth century Jewish European history."—History