Description
| Product ID: | 9781788736442 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Born Jewish |
| Subtitle: | A Childhood in Occupied Europe |
| Authors: | Author: Marcel Liebman, Liz Heron |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Memoirs, The Holocaust, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Memoirs, The Holocaust, Jewish studies, Belgium, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Eminent Marxist intellectual reveals class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Marcel Liebman was one of post-war Europe’s preeminent Marxist intellectuals. This, his memoir of Nazi-occupied Belgium, is both an elegy and an indictment. Liebman’s account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class-consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration. He documents the internal class war that has long been hidden from history: how the Nazi persecution exploited class distinctions within the Jewish community, and how certain Jewish notables collaborated in a systematic programme of denunciation and deportation against immigrant Jews who lacked the privileges of wealth and citizenship. Born Jewish is a fierce, powerful and subtle account of the Liebman family’s struggle to survive persecution and terror, a story rich with insight, humour and lyricism. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-07 |