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East European Jews in Switzerland
During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery of the main migration routes, the federal state with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general papers of this volume approach the topic in its transnational, local, linguistic, gendered, and ideological dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. They interweave and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics of this volume range – among others – from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics (Bundism, Socialism, Yiddishism, Zionism), conflicting performative cultures of Jewish and Russian revolutionaries, the Swiss Lehr- and Wanderjahre of the Jewish public intellectual Meir Wiener, the impact of Geneva on the Zionist Hebrew writer Ben Ami, the Russian-Jewish students’ colonies in Berne and Zurich and questions of individuals' integration and acculturation.
Jüdische Schweiz/ Jewish Switzerland
Jews make up the oldest cultural minority on the territory of today?s Switzerland, having a history that extends back to Antiquity. Jews were welcomed and persecuted in Switzerland, alternately, recruited and harassed, emancipated and controlled. Fifty objects, most of them from the collection of the Jewish Museum, tell of the relations between Jews and Non-Jews from Roman times to the present. What do tiny dice, a tea service, students? beer mugs, a Torah roll, the kipa with football motifs or inconspicuous objects tell us about the history of the Jews? The histories of the objects provide insight into Swiss history that becomes high in contrast when seen from the perspective of its most-discussed minority.
Jewish Refugees in Switzerland During the Holocaust
This is the first English-language memoir of the Jewish refugee experience in wartime Switzerland focusing on children's experiences and daily life in the refugee camps. The author integrates her memories of a refugee childhood with archival and historical research, including interviews. Fleeing the Nazis, the author's family was among the 25,000 Jews who sought refuge in Switzerland. The refugee camps were administered by Swiss government authorities with a peculiar mix of rigidity and compassion. Families were frequently separated, with men in one camp, and women and children in another. Thousands of refugee children were placed in foster care; many of them with non-Jewish foster families....
Nazi Gold
A “compelling [and] carefully researched” account of greed, duplicity, and an unholy partnership between Switzerland and the Third Reich (The Washington Times). In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, the European continent fell, nation by nation, to Nazi Germany’s invincible war machine. But Switzerland remained neutral during World War II, taking no side and bowing to no master. For a long time after, that was the accepted history—but it was a lie. Respected British investigative journalist Tom Bower reveals the shocking truth about how the government of Switzerland and the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Reich during the darkest era in mode...
Switzerland and Refugees in the Nazi Era
"English version has been translated from German and French original text.".
Jews and Judaism in Switzerland
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Jewish Swiss history, Swiss Jews, Synagogues in Switzerland, Albert Einstein, Felix Bloch, Ruth Dreifuss, Switzerland during the World Wars, Alain de Botton, Sholem Aleichem, Biala, Berne Trial, Robert Frank, Carlo Strenger, Maurice Abravanel, Ernest Bloch, Leon Botstein, Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Rede, World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks, Victor Goldschmidt, Sabina Spielrein, Kastner train, Madeleine M. Kunin, Hans Jakob Polotsky, Georges Brunschvig, Edmond H. Fischer, Rolf Liebermann, David Frankfurter, Albert Cohen, Tadeus ...
Miracles in Switzerland
The author shares a largely unknown story of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust by spending time in sanatoriums in Switzerland before and during the Holocaust. The author, Jutta Zehner, suffered from tuberculosis. Her family was forced to make a terrible choice: send her for a long stay in a Christian sanatorium in Leysin, a tiny village in Switzerland, or watch her be crippled and perhaps even die of the dread disease. It is the story of Jutta, and many more Jewish children hidden away in childrens sanatoriums. And it is the story of Jews determined not to let these hidden children be lost to their heritage. About half of the book includes short biographies of the Rabbis who helped her become the woman she is today.
The Righteous of Switzerland
The English edition includes statements and speeches by various persons (pp. xvii-xxxviii), the stories of two more Swiss citizens nominated by Yad Vashem for recognition as Righteous of the Nations, and other lesser-known accounts of Swiss citizens who helped save Jews during the war. Some of them are published here for the first time.
