Photography, Migration and Identity A German-Jewish-American Story /

• Main Authors: Umbach, Maiken (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sulzener, Scott (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Historiography.; Photography.; Emigration and immigration.; Europe, Central-History.; Civilization-History.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Memory Studies.; Migration.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; Cultural History.

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, this Palgrave Pivot explores how these refugees made sense of that experience. For many German Jews, t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Picturing Global Threads
• 2. Jewish Identities and Photography
• 3. Jewish Photography and the Pictorial Culture of Nazi Germany
• 4. Picturing Emigration
• 5. Photography, Identity, and Longing in the United States
• 6. Exile, Memory, and Irony.