Practices of Reunification

The Continuation of Refugee Life After 1945
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-72130-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies for the International Society for Cultural History

The volume explores the role of refugees and Displaced Persons (DPs) in Europe after 1945. It expands conventional narratives about post-National Socialist societies, which are characterized by victim myths, narratives of Trümmerfrauen (rubble women), and the reconstruction of supposedly homogeneous societies.

Using analyses informed by new approaches in cultural studies and digital humanities, the authors enhance studies of refugees and DPs’ ways of living and their interactions with their surrounding societies. Relying on microhistorical perspectives, the case studies are focusing on both, post-National Socialist societies and exile communities and thus contribute to a better understanding of everyday life. The book locates itself at the intersection of Migration Studies, Gender Studies, Emotion Studies, and the History of Knowledge and focuses on the following key questions: How did family members reconnect with individuals liberated from concentration camps? How did they communicate about the choice of new places to live? How did exile communities reorganize themselves after the end of the war?

This volume explores diverse experiences in the post-1945 world that have been shaping not only the European societies but have also been influencing our present legal and societal understandings and interpretations on a global scale.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strobl, Philipp

Korbel, Susanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Susanne Korbel and Philipp Strobl

Part I: Agency and Networks of Continuation

Chapter 1

1945: Surviving and Living in a Divided World

Michael Gehler

Chapter 2

To Save the Saviors: Reorganizing the Jewish Anarchists Humanitarian Network in Europe, 1945-1950

Maria Tarasova Chomard

Chapter 3

Postwar Journeys of Jewish and Polish Refugees from Poland (1940s-1950s)

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Chapter 4

Health As an Obstacle to Resettlement: Jewish Displaced Persons with Disabilities and Health Issues in Pursuit for Self-Determination after the Shoah 1948–1951

Johannes Glack

Part II: Practices of Reunifcation

Chapter 5

To Those Near and Far: Reconnecting with Family Members after the Holocaust

Rachel Blumenthal

Chapter 6

Beyond the Camp – New Beginnings and Continuities for Jewish DPs in Munich

Klaus Hagen

Chapter 7

Luke Wijnberg: The Possibilities of a Single Story

Andrea Wuerth

Über Autor(innen)

Susanne Korbel is a senior post-doc at the University of Graz. Among her most important publications are: Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika um 1900 (2021), and the Leo Baeck Insitute Essay Price winning article “Spaces of Gendered Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters.”

Philipp Strobl is a historian in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the intersection of knowledge history and migration history. He has published extensively in these fields, including monographs, edited volumes, and articles on migrating knowledge and its impact on societies in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His most recent book, A History of Displaced Knowledge, was recently published by Brill in the Studies in Global Migration History series. He also edited a special issue titled Lost Knowledge and Migration for the Journal of Migration History.