Author: BURMEISTER, KARL-HEINZ
Title: Geschichte der Juden in Stadt und Herrschaft Feldkirch. (Schriftenreihe der Rheticus-Gesellschaft 31)
Description: Feldkirch, Rheticus Gesellschaft., 1992. (4), 244 pp., illustrated. Minor wear to backcover. Internally clean and very good. Softcover. Lokalgeschichte. A survey of the history of Jews in Feldkirch, Austria, a frontier town and district near the Bodensee (Lake Constance), from the 14th century until the Holocaust period. Pp. 163-171 analyze the roots of antisemitism in this area. Pp. 173-186 mention the importance of the place as the "gate to Switzerland" with the rise of the Nazi regime in 1938, and recount several attempts of refugees from various countries to escape; also traces the fate of those who did not succeed. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) ISBN: 9783900866303

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