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Ethnic Democracy And Its Ambiguities: The Case Of The Needle Trade Unions, Gerd Korman
Ethnic Democracy And Its Ambiguities: The Case Of The Needle Trade Unions, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
[Excerpt] During the years between World War I and World War II the conduct among well-known Jewish labor leaders seems to have foreshadowed events in the history of America’s nationality following the tumult of the 1960’s. In the 1920’s and 1930’s America’s elected or appointed officials still used a pecking order based on assumed inequalities of race, ethnicity, and gender in making policy decisions. They presumed that their private interests, those of the “insiders,” the “leading groups,” or “controlling minorities,” were the only appropriate ones for determining public policy. It was then, especially in the Depression years, when the New …
Silence In America Textbooks, Gerd Korman
Silence In America Textbooks, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
[Excerpt] Although more than two decades separate us from the time when the Allied forces revealed the depth and dimensions of the Nazi horror, America’s textbook-writing historians still do not understand the demands the death camps place on each of them as scholar and as educator of the young in our public schools and universities. They continue to write in the tradition that prepared no one for the catastrophe, a tradition that still prevents us from attempting to assess and understand what happened; for with precious few exceptions they write of the years before 1945 as if the 1930’s and …
Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938-1948, Gerd Korman
Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938-1948, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
Link provided is to the Cornell University Library catalog record. Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated St. Louis; the mother left for the United States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own path—from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir …
When Inheritance Met The Bacterium: Quarantines In New York And Danzig, 1898-1921, Gerd Korman
When Inheritance Met The Bacterium: Quarantines In New York And Danzig, 1898-1921, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
No abstract provided.
Ethnic Democracy And Its Ambiguities: The Case Of The Needle Trade Unions, Gerd Korman
Ethnic Democracy And Its Ambiguities: The Case Of The Needle Trade Unions, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
No abstract provided.
Survivors' Talmud And The U.S. Army, Gerd Korman
Warsaw Plus Thirty: Some Perceptions In The Sources And Written History Of The Ghetto Uprising, Gerd Korman
Warsaw Plus Thirty: Some Perceptions In The Sources And Written History Of The Ghetto Uprising, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
Link is to the Cornell University Library catalog record.
Hunter And Hunted: Human History Of The Holocaust, Gerd Korman
Hunter And Hunted: Human History Of The Holocaust, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
Link provided is to the Cornell University Library's catalog record.
Political Loyalties, Immigrant Traditions, And Reform: The Wisconsin German-American Press And Progressivism, 1909-1912, Gerd Korman
Gerd Korman
Progressive leaders held that German-Americans supported them in their bid for national power. This author takes a look at the other side, at the terms of the German-Americans themselves, and finds--quite another story. Link is to the Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives digital collection.