Copyright
Franklin FelsensteinPublished On
2024-03-25ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
644 pages (xxii+622)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1428180616LCCN
2023446242THEMA
- NHTB
- NHWR7
- JPHX
- DND
- DNC
BIC
- JFSR1
- JPFQ
- JFFD
- BJ
- BGH
BISAC
- HIS022000
- HIS027100
- POL042030
- LCO011000
- BIO037000
- BIO026000
- SOC066000
LCC
- DS134.4
Keywords
- Personal correspondence
- Refugees
- World War 2
- 1930s Germany
- Jewish persecution
- England
No Life Without You
Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s
- Franklin Felsenstein (editor)
- Rachel Pistol (introduction by)
Additional Resources
A photographic portrait of the artist Max Schwimmer (1895-1960).
A photograph of Dr Franz Volhard.
A photograph of a hatbox and hats designed by Eve Valère.
An image of an application form created by the Palästina Treuhand-Stelle (Palestine Trust Company).
Torn photo of Annelie Herzberg (née Freimann), accessed via https://www.ssbjcchec.org/survivor/anneliese-herzberg/. The site includes a valuable interview with her.
Photograph of Semy Felsenstein (1883-1978), head partner of Gebrüder Felsenstein in World War I uniform.
Contents
Refugees: A Contextual Introduction
(pp. 1–10)- Rachel Pistol
One: Familien Hirsch
(pp. 13–22)- Frank Felsenstein
Two: Mainly Mope
(pp. 23–32)- Frank Felsenstein
Three: Victoriaschule
(pp. 33–38)- Frank Felsenstein
Four: “And So What?”
(pp. 39–42)- Frank Felsenstein
Five: Heising
(pp. 43–48)- Frank Felsenstein
Six: Of Books And Arts (1): Max Schwimmer
(pp. 49–56)- Frank Felsenstein
Seven: Of Books And Arts (2): Thomas Mann
(pp. 57–60)- Frank Felsenstein
Eight: “I Will Give Up Medicine!!!!!”
(pp. 61–72)- Frank Felsenstein
Nine: Under The Swastika
(pp. 73–82)- Frank Felsenstein
Ten: “Did I Do The Right Thing?”
(pp. 83–94)- Frank Felsenstein
Eleven: Zionism
(pp. 95–102)- Frank Felsenstein
Twelve: Gretel
(pp. 103–108)- Frank Felsenstein
Thirteen: Marks and Mitja
(pp. 109–116)- Frank Felsenstein
- Frank Felsenstein
Fifteen: Mope In Palestine
(pp. 131–138)- Frank Felsenstein
Sixteen: Palestine Or Vera?
(pp. 139–148)- Frank Felsenstein
Seventeen: Dover
(pp. 149–158)- Frank Felsenstein
Eighteen: “Happy And Sad At The Same Time”
(pp. 159–180)- Frank Felsenstein
- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty: “More Of A Stranger Here Now”
(pp. 197–204)- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-One: “The Letter Writing Last Guest”
(pp. 205–218)- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-Two: “Human Beings Are Good!”
(pp. 219–234)- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-Three: “Every Turn Of The Wheel”
(pp. 235–256)- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-Four: “I Will Come To London Directly”
(pp. 257–284)- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-Five: “The Alpha And Omega Of My Life”
(pp. 285–306)- Frank Felsenstein
- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-Seven: “10,108 White Foxes”
(pp. 349–380)- Frank Felsenstein
Twenty-Eight: Visas, Visas, Visas
(pp. 381–416)- Frank Felsenstein
- Frank Felsenstein
Thirty: “The Little Fruit That Fell From The Tree”
(pp. 459–512)- Frank Felsenstein
Thirty-One: “No Life Without You”
(pp. 513–590)- Frank Felsenstein
Thirty-Two: Afterword
(pp. 591–600)- Frank Felsenstein
Contributors
Franklin Felsenstein
(editor)Franklin Felsenstein (aka Frank Felsenstein) is the only son of Maurice (“Mope”) and Vera Felsenstein. He is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Ball State University in Indiana. Before that, he was Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds in England. He has also held appointments at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, Vanderbilt University, Yeshiva College, and Drew University. His publications include Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture (1995), English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World (1999), and (with James J. Connolly) What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (2015). He has edited works by Tobias Smollett (Travels through France and Italy), Peter Aram (A Practical Treatise of Flowers), and John Thelwall (Incle and Yarico). He and his family moved to the United States in 1998. He and his wife now live in Chicago.
Rachel Pistol
(introduction by)Rachel Pistol is a historian, author, and leading authority on World War II refugees from Nazi oppression and internment during the Second World War. She joined the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London in 2018 to work on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), where she is part of the Project Management Board. Rachel is the National Coordinator of the UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-UK), for which she is based at the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton. She is also Historical Advisor to World Jewish Relief, formerly the Central British Fund, the charity which helped German and Austrian refugees escape to the UK including the Kindertransport and Kitchener Camp rescues.