Overview
- Summary
- An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe. This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees' inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020
- Locale
- Portugal
- Contents
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Escaping terror and terror of escaping : before and after the war turned West
The exasperations and consolations of refugee life after 1940 : fear of Portugal's regime and appreciation of its people
"Lisbon is sold out" : relief and hope, Nazis and dictatorship
Emotional dissonance : adults mourn losses, their children look forward
Sites of refuge and angst : consulates and confinements
Sharing feelings in letters and in person
Final hurdles. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-345) and index.
Escaping terror and terror of escaping : before and after the war turned West -- The exasperations and consolations of refugee life after 1940 : fear of Portugal's regime and appreciation of its people -- "Lisbon is sold out" : relief and hope, Nazis and dictatorship -- Emotional dissonance : adults mourn losses, their children look forward -- Sites of refuge and angst : consulates and confinements -- Sharing feelings in letters and in person -- Final hurdles.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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Hosted by ProQuest Electronic version(s) available.
- ISBN
- 9780300244250
0300244258 - Physical Description
- xvi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Portugal. Jews--Portugal--Social conditions--20th century. Jews--Portugal--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Portugal. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Portugal. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugees. Jews. Jews--Social conditions. Refugees. Portugal. History. Flucht Juden Portugal
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- 2023-08-16 10:46:00
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