The Nazi persecution profoundly changed German Jews' experience of space and time. They were confronted with increasingly restrictive living conditions, a lack of opportunities to plan and organise their time, and the difficulties of waiting for the unknown. How did they cope with their exclusion from public life? How was their community life reorganised, and what changes took place in their private lives? How did their increasing hardship affect the way they experienced the passage of time?
Based on private accounts (diaries, correspondence and memoirs) and public sources (Jewish newspapers and magazines), Prof. Dr. Guy Miron reconstructs and analyses the space and time experienced during Nazi persecution. This offers a new perspective on the lives of German Jews under National Socialism. Miron shows the strategies and practices they developed to cope with the new reality, to deal with their increasingly limited access to public space and, in response, to reinvent traditional Jewish space, create new interpretations of the past and rethink their attitude towards their German identity.
Following the lecture, Prof. Dr. Guy Miron will discuss his recently published book, „Jüdisch-Sein im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland. Gelebter Raum, gelebte Zeit“ with Dr. Björn Siegel and Dr. Kim Wünschmann.
The event will be held in English
Registration required: kontakt[at]igdj-hh.de
Lesesaal IGdJ
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg