The Jews in Germany – Nachum T. Gidal

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It shows the beginning of Jewish life in Germany, and the flowering of Jewish culture which took place in the Middle Ages despite all the persecutions, the struggle for equal civil rights, and the contribution made by Jews to German culture. In his quest for the history of his people, he combines the objective realism of the photographic reporter with personal commitment. Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 – 11 March 2002) was a German journalist who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of Germany’s leading journalists and intellectuals, working for over 55 years as an editor and later publisher of the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper Die Zeit. She joined the resistance movement, which led to questioning by the Gestapo after a failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. Although many of her fellow resistance activists were executed, she was released reportedly because her name was not found in any of the documents seized by the Nazis. In 1946, Dönhoff joined the fledgling, Hamburg-based, intellectual weekly Die Zeit as political editor. In August 1954, she temporarily left the newspaper in protest against articles by Richard Tüngel, who had published, inter alia, a text of Nazi constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt and went to London to work for The Observer. Soon afterwards, however, she returned to Hamburg, and She was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief in 1955, then editor-in-chief in 1968, and publisher in 1972. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990. She was involved in helping refugees settle in West Germany from East Germany and other parts of Europe. At the time of her death, Dönhoff was still co-publisher of the influential newspaper. She was the author of more than twenty books, including political and historical analyses of Germany as well as commentary on U.S. foreign policy. First English Language
Hardcover. Condition: Very good, like new . Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nachum T. Gidal (Photojournalist) (illustrator). 440 pages. Contains a Preface by Marion Grafin Donhoff and 974 Illustrations (some in color). Map. Bibliography. Picture Credits. Index. Contains the Declaration of Leo Baeck and Albert Einstein. Slight creasing to top edge of dust jacket. This is the English translation of Juden in Deutschland von der Römerzeit bis zur Weimarer Republik Professor Nachum Tim Gidal (1909-1996) was a photojournalist, and in fact one of the great pioneers of modern photojournalism. See OUR OWN photograph of this book for Quality Control