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Lucy Renner Jones, my translator, who gave me and my book a new and uncomparable voice. And my editor Becky Walsh at John Murray; I am thankful for her guidance, insights and never-failing advice.
Further Reading
Numerous books have guided my writing and have offered me invaluable insights. Here is a selection:
On the History of Israel and Palestine
Nusseibeh, Sari (with Anthony David), Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, London, 2007
Rosenberg, Göran, The Lost Land: A Personal History of Zionism and Messianism and the State of Israel, Stockholm, 1998
Segev, Tom, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, New York, 1995
——, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, London, 2005
Shavit, Ari, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, London, 2014
(Auto-)biographies, Letters and Diaries
Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth, Schauplatz Berlin: Ein Deutsches Tagesbuch (Scenes from Berlin: A German Diary), Munich, 1962
Arendt, Hannah, The Aftermath of Nazi Rule. Report from Germany, Berlin, 1950
Arendt, Hannah, and Gerschom Scholem, The Correspondence: Hannah Arendt and Gerschom Scholem, Berlin, 2010
Ben-Natan, Asher, and Susanne Urban, Die Bricha: Aus dem Terror nach Eretz Israel – Ein Fluchthelfer erinnert sich (The Bricha: From Terror to the Land of Israel – A Memoir of an Escape Helper), Düsseldorf, 2005
Blumenthal, W. Michael, The Invisible Wall, Berkeley, 1998
Frisch, Max, Tagebuch 1946:1949 (Diary 1946–1949), Berlin, 2011
Oz, Amos, A Tale of Love and Darkness, New York, 2004
Sahl, Hans, Memoiren eines Moralisten (Memoirs of a Moralist), Munich, 2009
Scholem, Betty, and Gerschom Scholem, A Life in Letters, 1914–1982, ed. and tr. Anthony David Skinner, Cambridge, Mass., 2002
Scholem, Gerschom, From Berlin to Jerusalem, tr. Harry Zohn, Schocken, New York, 1980, Briefe, Bd. I, 1914–1947 (Letters, Vol. I, 1914–1947), Munich, 1994
Stern, Fritz, Five Germanys I Have Known, New York, 2006
Sutzkever, Abraham, Vilna Ghetto 1941–1944, Zurich, 2009
Willstätter, Richard, From My Life, New York, 1965
On Looted Books and Art
Bertz, Inka, and Michael Dorrmann (eds.), Raub und Restitution: Kulturgut aus jüdischem Besitz von 1933 bis heute (Loot and Restitution: Jewish Cultural Artefacts from 1933 to Today), Göttingen, 2008
Dehnel, Regine (ed.), Jüdischer Buchbesitz als Raubgut (Property of Jewish Books as Loot), Zweites Hannoversches Symposium, Frankfurt am Main, 2006
Kurtz, Michael J., America and the Return of Nazi Contraband, Cambridge, 2006
Nicholas, Lynn H., The Rape of Europa, New York, 1995
Scientists in the Third Reich
Deichmann, Ute, Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen: Chemiker und Biochemiker in der NS Zeit (Escape, Collaboration, Forgetting: Chemists and Biochemists in the Nazi Era), Weinheim, 2001
Schmaltz, Florian, Kampfstoff-Forschung im Nationalsozialismus: Zur Kooperation von Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten, Militär und Industrie (Biological Weapons during National Socialism: On the Cooperation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, Military and Industry), Göttingen, 2005
On the Situation of Jewish Survivors
Königseder, Angelika, and Juliane Wetzel, Lebensmut im Wartesaal: Die jüdischen Displaced Persons im Nachkriegsdeutschand (Optimism in the Waiting Room: Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany), Frankfurt am Main, 2005
And
Noam Zadoff helped the beginning of my journey with his enlightening essay, ‘Reise in die Vergangenheit, Entwurf einer neuen Zukunft: Gerschom Scholems Reise nach Deutschland im Jahre 1946’ (‘Journey into the Past, Plan for a New Future: Gerschom Scholem’s Journey through Germany in the Year 1946’), Münchener Beiträge zur Jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, Heft 2, 2007.
When this manuscript was finished, Mirjam Zadoff’s remarkable book, Der rote Hiob – Das Leben des Werner Scholem (The Red Job – The Life of Werner Scholem), Munich, 2014, was published, an effectively narrated biography of two brothers and of life as a Jew under National Socialism and in the twentieth century.
About the Author
STEPHAN ABARBANELL was born in 1957 and grew up in Hamburg. He studied protestant theology and general rhetoric in Hamburg, Tübingen, and at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as a chaplain at the University Hospital San Francisco. He served as chief of programming at rbb Broadcasting for many years, and is now in charge of cultural affairs with the public rbb Television and Radio in Berlin. He lives with his wife in Potsdam, Germany. Displaced is his first novel.
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Copyright
DISPLACED. Copyright © 2015 by Stephan Abarbanell. Translation © 2017 by Lucy Renner Jones. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by John Murray (Publishers), an Hachette UK Company
Originally published in Germany in German in 2015 as Morgenland by Random House Blessing
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Cover design by James Iacobelli
Cover photographs: © Paul Gooney / Arcangel (street and man) and © Daboost / Shutterstock (texture)
The translation of this work was supported by the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-248450-5
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-248447-5
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Further Reading
Numerous books have guided my writing and have offered me invaluable insights. Here is a selection:
On the History of Israel and Palestine
Nusseibeh, Sari (with Anthony David), Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, London, 2007
Rosenberg, Göran, The Lost Land: A Personal History of Zionism and Messianism and the State of Israel, Stockholm, 1998
Segev, Tom, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, New York, 1995
——, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, London, 2005
Shavit, Ari, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, London, 2014
(Auto-)biographies, Letters and Diaries
Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth, Schauplatz Berlin: Ein Deutsches Tagesbuch (Scenes from Berlin: A German Diary), Munich, 1962
Arendt, Hannah, The Aftermath of Nazi Rule. Report from Germany, Berlin, 1950
Arendt, Hannah, and Gerschom Scholem, The Correspondence: Hannah Arendt and Gerschom Scholem, Berlin, 2010
Ben-Natan, Asher, and Susanne Urban, Die Bricha: Aus dem Terror nach Eretz Israel – Ein Fluchthelfer erinnert sich (The Bricha: From Terror to the Land of Israel – A Memoir of an Escape Helper), Düsseldorf, 2005
Blumenthal, W. Michael, The Invisible Wall, Berkeley, 1998
Frisch, Max, Tagebuch 1946:1949 (Diary 1946–1949), Berlin, 2011
Oz, Amos, A Tale of Love and Darkness, New York, 2004
Sahl, Hans, Memoiren eines Moralisten (Memoirs of a Moralist), Munich, 2009
Scholem, Betty, and Gerschom Scholem, A Life in Letters, 1914–1982, ed. and tr. Anthony David Skinner, Cambridge, Mass., 2002
Scholem, Gerschom, From Berlin to Jerusalem, tr. Harry Zohn, Schocken, New York, 1980, Briefe, Bd. I, 1914–1947 (Letters, Vol. I, 1914–1947), Munich, 1994
Stern, Fritz, Five Germanys I Have Known, New York, 2006
Sutzkever, Abraham, Vilna Ghetto 1941–1944, Zurich, 2009
Willstätter, Richard, From My Life, New York, 1965
On Looted Books and Art
Bertz, Inka, and Michael Dorrmann (eds.), Raub und Restitution: Kulturgut aus jüdischem Besitz von 1933 bis heute (Loot and Restitution: Jewish Cultural Artefacts from 1933 to Today), Göttingen, 2008
Dehnel, Regine (ed.), Jüdischer Buchbesitz als Raubgut (Property of Jewish Books as Loot), Zweites Hannoversches Symposium, Frankfurt am Main, 2006
Kurtz, Michael J., America and the Return of Nazi Contraband, Cambridge, 2006
Nicholas, Lynn H., The Rape of Europa, New York, 1995
Scientists in the Third Reich
Deichmann, Ute, Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen: Chemiker und Biochemiker in der NS Zeit (Escape, Collaboration, Forgetting: Chemists and Biochemists in the Nazi Era), Weinheim, 2001
Schmaltz, Florian, Kampfstoff-Forschung im Nationalsozialismus: Zur Kooperation von Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten, Militär und Industrie (Biological Weapons during National Socialism: On the Cooperation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, Military and Industry), Göttingen, 2005
On the Situation of Jewish Survivors
Königseder, Angelika, and Juliane Wetzel, Lebensmut im Wartesaal: Die jüdischen Displaced Persons im Nachkriegsdeutschand (Optimism in the Waiting Room: Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany), Frankfurt am Main, 2005
And
Noam Zadoff helped the beginning of my journey with his enlightening essay, ‘Reise in die Vergangenheit, Entwurf einer neuen Zukunft: Gerschom Scholems Reise nach Deutschland im Jahre 1946’ (‘Journey into the Past, Plan for a New Future: Gerschom Scholem’s Journey through Germany in the Year 1946’), Münchener Beiträge zur Jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, Heft 2, 2007.
When this manuscript was finished, Mirjam Zadoff’s remarkable book, Der rote Hiob – Das Leben des Werner Scholem (The Red Job – The Life of Werner Scholem), Munich, 2014, was published, an effectively narrated biography of two brothers and of life as a Jew under National Socialism and in the twentieth century.
About the Author
STEPHAN ABARBANELL was born in 1957 and grew up in Hamburg. He studied protestant theology and general rhetoric in Hamburg, Tübingen, and at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as a chaplain at the University Hospital San Francisco. He served as chief of programming at rbb Broadcasting for many years, and is now in charge of cultural affairs with the public rbb Television and Radio in Berlin. He lives with his wife in Potsdam, Germany. Displaced is his first novel.
Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com.
Copyright
DISPLACED. Copyright © 2015 by Stephan Abarbanell. Translation © 2017 by Lucy Renner Jones. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by John Murray (Publishers), an Hachette UK Company
Originally published in Germany in German in 2015 as Morgenland by Random House Blessing
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Cover design by James Iacobelli
Cover photographs: © Paul Gooney / Arcangel (street and man) and © Daboost / Shutterstock (texture)
The translation of this work was supported by the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-248450-5
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-248447-5
About the Publisher
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www.harpercollins.com.au
Canada
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