02938cam a2200409 i 4500 1078363339 TxGeo 20231208120000.0 230519s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023023173 9781469675442 hbk. 1469675447 hbk. (OCoLC)1382247870 TxGeo rda Judd, Robin, author. Between two worlds : Jewish war brides after the Holocaust / Robin Judd. Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023] 239 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed-from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom-and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the chaplains who officiated their weddings, the Allied authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples' fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captures how the exhilaration of the brides' early romances coexisted with survivor's guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land"-- Provided by publisher. 20231222. World War, 1939-1945 Women Europe. Holocaust survivors Marriage. Jewish women in the Holocaust. War brides United States History 20th century. War brides Canada History 20th century. War brides Great Britain History 20th century. Intercountry marriage History 20th century. Jews Migrations. QS5