Iggers, Wilma.

Two lives in uncertain times : facing the challenges of the 20th century as scholars and citizens / Wilma and Georg Iggers. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2006. - viii, 211, [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in German history .

"Many sections have been modified to make them more meaningful to a non-German readership; others...have been thoroughly rewritten"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Bohemia to Canada (1921-1942) -- From Hamburg to Richmond (1926-1944) -- Graduate studies in Chicago and New York (1943-1949) -- The struggle against racial segregation : Little Rock and New Orleans (1950-1960) -- Return to Europe (1960-1962) -- Turbulent years in Buffalo (1962-1970) -- The seventies and eighties (1970-1990) -- Our contacts with East Germany (1966-1990) -- Private life and ties to Bohemia (1970-2006) -- After the Cold War (1990-2006).


Translated from the German.

1845451384 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781845451387 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1845451406 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781845451400 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006013190

GBA608821 bnb

013366258 Uk


Iggers, Wilma.
Iggers, Georg G.


Jews--Czech Republic--Bohemia--Biography.
Jews--Germany--Hamburg--Biography.
Refugees, Jewish--United States--Biography.
Jewish college teachers--United States--Biography.
Reconciliation--History--20th century.


Germany--Ethnic relations.
Czech Republic--Ethnic relations.

DS135.E89 / I24t 2006

305.892/400922 B