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Hidden in the Enemy's Sight
For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works at various jobs, maintains a clandestine stopover for Allied couriers, produces Polish-language news bulletins for Poles housed in forced-labour camps, and does everything he can within the heartland of the Third Reich to sabotage the Nazis' war effort. Among Kamienksi's many horrific experiences is his survival during the terrible firebombing of Dresden in February 1945. After the war, the author becomes a translator in East Germany for the Russian occupiers, studies at the art academy in Dresden, and eventually finds work as an artist. In 1948, after marrying a German woman, he escapes the Soviet zone, is brutally interrogated in a Polish
Sacred Vows
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At the Altar
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A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de siècle.This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler''s productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, ...
The Chancellor
A New York Times Notable Book The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. And she found the answer in Merkel's political genius: in her willingness to talk with adversaries rather than over them, her skill at negotiating wit...
Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Despite much study of Viennese culture and Judaism between 1890 and 1914, little research has been done to examine the role of Jewish women in this milieu. Rescuing a lost legacy, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna explores the myriad ways in which Jewish women contributed to the development of Viennese culture and participated widely in politics and cultural spheres. Areas of exploration include the education and family lives of Viennese Jewish girls and varying degrees of involvement of Jewish women in philanthropy and prayer, university life, Zionism, psychoanalysis and medicine, literature, and culture. Incorporating general studies of Austrian women during this period, Alison Rose al...
Göttinger Händel-Beiträge, Band 22
Die Göttinger Händel-Festspiele mussten im Jubiläumsjahr 2020, abgesehen von einigen digitalen Ersatzveranstaltungen, wie fast allen anderen Musikfestivals ausfallen. Davon betroffen waren auch das jährliche Symposium sowie der Festvortrag, die jeweils den Hauptteil der GHB ausmachen. Dennoch hat die Händel-Gesellschaft mit guten Gründen beschlossen, am regelmäßigen Erscheinen der GHB festzuhalten. Der vorliegende Band vereinigt daher, angeregt vom Jubiläumsjahr, fünf unabhängig voneinander entstandene Beiträge, die besonderen Aspekten der Händel-Rezeption im späten 19. und im früheren 20. Jahrhundert gewidmet sind. Darunter findet sich auch eine Dokumentation der Göttinger Jubiläums-Ausstellung von 2020. Zudem wird Oskar Hagens Textbearbeitung von Händels 'Rodelinda', die für die Göttinger Aufführung 1920 entstand, aus gegebenem Anlass neu veröffentlicht.
