WALTER LAQUEUR
Generation Exodus
The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
"In
Generation Exodus, Laqueur has undertaken the
daunting task of writing the collective biography of
a generation unique in history: the children of the
German-Jewish families who fled Germany in the
1930s. His focus is on how they adapted and as a
group went on to lead unusually productive lives,
in spite of having suffered trauma, dislocation and
loss, as well as the realization that pure luck alone
had saved them. As someone who shared this expe–
rience, I can testify that Laqueur has succeeded
admirably.
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-
DR. HENRY
A.
KISSINGER
"I am deeply impressed by Walter Laqueur's new book. He provides us with
most moving portraits of human fates
in
the last century. What he describes
is my generation. Both of us went to school
in
Berlin at the same time. The
sufferings of those who had to emigrate, their incredible challenges to find
new roots, their astounding success in many cases and, not last in the least,
the never-healing losses to their former homes tells the story to the young
generation
in
our part of the world which it should never forget.
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- RICHARD V.
WEIZSAcKER,
former president of the German Federal Republic
"Picture that generation, barely old enough to flee for their lives, and too
young to offer any evident value to a world loath to give them shelter. Yet
their achievements in country after country far surpassed the rational expec–
tations of conventional wisdom. What lessons does this story hold for future
generations? Thanks to Walter Laqueur's thought-provoking biography, we
have a chance to find out.
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-
ARNo
PENZIAS,
Nobel Laureate,
author, and former Bell Labs Chief Scientist
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series
Brandeis University
$29.95 clothbound
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF
New England
Hanover, NH 03755-2055, USA' 800·421-1561
