Language:
German
Pages:
134 pages (double space) :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1976
Keywords:
Blum, Ferdinand.
;
Ehrlich, Paul,
;
Rudolf, Max,
;
Salfeld family.
;
Schweitzer, Albert,
;
Education, Higher 1918-1933.
;
Feminism.
;
Jewish families 20th century.
;
Manners and customs.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Jews, German Genealogy.
;
Physicians.
;
Voyages and travels.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1945-
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Hans Salfield, written in 1976, including information on his mother's upbringing and her family: feminist and social activities of his eccentric grandmother; nostalgic reminiscences on his childhood and youth in a well-to-do Jewish family in the Frankfurt Westend; nannies and tutors in French and piano; growing up in an assimilated Jewish society; interesting observations on social conventions, cultural norms and gender relations; outstanding personalities of the Frankfurt Westend; description of family members; early interest in medicine; encounter with Albert Schweitzer; recollections of World War I and the aftermath of the revolution; humanistic high school education (Gymnasium); excursions in the mountains (Sonnwendfeier); memories of his first romantic involvements; medical studies in Bonn, Koeln and Freiburg; student life and encounters with male and female colleagues; research on the Salfeld family heritage reaching back to the 18th and 19th century; reflecting on the ambivalence highly assimilated Jewish conservatives faced in the course of political changes in Germany; bewilderment and shock due to the circumstances and consequences of the Nazi take-over in 1933; difficulties finishing his studies with Jewish professors disappearing and Jewish students expelled from the university; graduation without permission to practice his profession; friends and family members leaving the country; emigration to the United States in 1934; difficult start as a physician in New York; disappearance of the Westend world of his childhood days.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
Synopsis in file
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