Language:
German
Pages:
106
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1977
Keywords:
Blumenfeld, Kurt,
;
Noam, Ernst.
;
Nussbaum, Max.
;
Grumbach, Robert.
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Antisemitism.
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Education, Higher 1918-1933.
;
Lawyers.
;
Socialism.
;
Universities and colleges.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
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Zionism.
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Germany Politics and government 1918-1933.
;
Hanau (Germany)
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration 1934.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
This is an edited (incomplete) transcript of oral history interviews with Ernst Noam (Nussbaum), conducted with his wife Lotte Noam and their children in Switzerland and in the United States, 1976-77.
Abstract:
Memories of Ernst Nussbaum's childhood in a well-to-do Jewish family in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main. His father Max Nussbaum was a lawyer. Recollections of the outbreak of World War One. His father served as a sergeant in the German army. Shortage of food and memories of air raids. Erst Nussbaum grew up in an assimilated and liberal environment. His great-uncle, the lawyer Robert Grumbach, was a Socialist, who had a great impact on him. Different world of his orthodox paternal grandparents in Fulda. His grandfather Levy Nussbaum was parness in the synagogue. Nussbaum family history going back to the 17th century in the Frankfurter Judengasse. Recollections of the Jewish community and local politics in Hanau, where Max Nussbaum, the author's father, was the leader of liberal party. Vacations with his younger sister Hilde at the Jewish children's home of Gertrud Feiertag in Norderney. Recollections of the murder of Walter Rathenau in 1922. Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish pupils in the Gymnasium (high school). Experience with antisemitism. Exclusion from the student dance formation "Schillerkraenzchen". Members of the pre-Nazi organization "Jungsturm" among the students. Encounter with Zionism and establishment of Zionist youth group ("Juedischer Wanderbund") together with Ernst Loewenstein in Hanau. Outings at the weekends. Influence of Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld. Studies of law at the universities in Frankfurt, Geneva, Freiburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Zionist student organizations. Cultural activities. After the Nazi take-over in 1933 Ernst Nussbaum went to Paris. He emigrated to Palestine in 1934, where he was reunited with his family.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German
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