Author: JACOBSON, KENNETH
Title: Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors
Description: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003. 358 pp. Very good condition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Nazi Germany's Final Solution confronted Jews caught in its web with the ultimate challenge to identity - all those who fit the Nazis' purportedly racial notion of Jew were placed under sentence of death, irrespective of how they lived, what they believed, or who they took themselves to be. Their very origins having become an inexorable threat to their existence, these people were forced to come to grips - consciously or unconsciously, in word or deed - with their Jewishness. Embattled Selves presents the life stories of fifteen men and women who discovered, concealed, embraced, or rejected their Jewishness as a result of Nazi persecution. Theirs are atypical stories, the stories of people whose physical and spiritual survival came to depend on the mutability of the self. ISBN: 9780871135711

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