The Lifeline: Salomon Grumbach and the Quest for Safety

Meredith L. Scott (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
9789004514393 (ISBN)

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The Lifeline is the ground-breaking study of Salomon Grumbach, an Alsatian Jew, journalist, and socialist politician who became one of Europe’s most important refugee advocates. It examines his life in interwar France and beyond, tracing his human rights activism across the decades.

During the first months of World War II, nearly one thousand refugees and asylum seekers held in French internment camps sought the help of one man: Salomon Grumbach. Meredith Scott’s The Lifeline is a ground-breaking study of Grumbach, an Alsatian Jew, journalist, and socialist politician who became one of Europe’s most important interwar refugee advocates. Focusing on his remarkable life in Germany and France, it uncovers the identities that drove his international crusades for democracy and human rights. The Lifeline offers lessons that transcend national boundaries and historical moments, challenging us to rethink our ideas about resistance, mobilization, and activism.

Meredith Scott, Ph.D (2012), University of Delaware, is Assistant Professor of History at the US Air Force Academy. She has published articles on French Jewish history, including “Republicanism on the Borders: Jewish Activism and the Refugee Crisis in Strasbourg and Nice” (Urban History, 2016).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Foundations

1 Hattstatt and beyond, the Early Years

1 Roots

2 Pre-War and Wartime Controversies

3 World War i

2 Towards Reconciliation, 1918–1932

1 Contours of Public Engagement

2 Rapprochement & a Fragile Peace

3 And When We Wake Up, It Will Be Too Late, 1932–1936

1 Sounding the Alarm

2 The Crisis of February 1934

3 The Crisis Begins

4 Voices from the Abyss, 1936–1939

1 Deputy of Castres

2 Fragmentation

3 Munich and beyond

4 Birth of the Internment Camp System

5 Survival, 1939–1945

1 Establishment of Vichy and the Massilia Affair

2 Captivity

Conclusion

1 Stability, Security, and Peace

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 72
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	452 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9789004514393 / 9789004514393
Zustand	Neuware