Description
A deeply personal and moving account of the realities of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Prague.
About the Author
Marie Bader (1886-1942) was born in Zebau and lived much of her life in nearby Karlsbad. This area of Bohemia was part of the Sudetenland and following Hitler's invasion in 1938, Marie fled to Prague. She was deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Eastern Poland where she was murdered.
Reviews
This book is one more remarkable piece in the unknowable and uncompletable jigsaw of Jewry in the 1940s. * The Jewish Chronicle *
Life and Love opens a window into relations between Jews and non-Jews, which Bader illustrated in discussions of the yellow star. Her letters touch on religion, suicide, family separation, and the place of the institutional Jewish community in the lives of (people identified as) Jews. The collection will be appreciated by scholars and students, and by readers interested in the Holocaust or, perhaps, simply love. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
Life and Love in Nazi Prague, a collection of letters written during World War II, provides us with an extraordinary glimpse into the communication mechanisms and survival strategies not of those few who survived but of those many Jews who were murdered. The breathtaking letter exchange between Greek Thessaloniki and Czech Prague, once flourishing Jewish cities trapped under Nazi occupation, forces us to understand how time mattered and how little sense people could have of what nowadays tends to be so obvious. * Katerina Kralova, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic *
Life and Love in Nazi Prague is an excellent publication which, through an outstanding commentary on the letters, allows not only an insight into the hopes and fears of the author, but also a better understanding of the daily life of the Jewish population and of Nazi policy in occupied Prague. * Judaica Bohemiae (trans by Bloomsbury Publishing) *
Extraordinary and moving ... It is impossible in a short review to do justice to this remarkable book. * Baroness Quin, The House *
A truly significant and touching addition to the world of Holocaust studies. They tell of a neglected story - that of the everyday life of Jews in Czechoslovakia in the first years of the war... It is a labour of love on their behalf which allows a beautiful love story during the horrors of Nazism to be appreciated by us today. * Professor Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, University of Southampton, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788312561
Author Marie Bader
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 592g