A Woman in Berlin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Woman in Berlin write by . This book was released on 2006-07-11. A Woman in Berlin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
Underground in Berlin
Underground in Berlin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Underground in Berlin write by Marie Jalowicz Simon. This book was released on 2015-09-08. Underground in Berlin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, and disappeared into the city. In the years that followed, Marie took shelter wherever it was offered, living with the strangest of bedfellows, from circus performers and committed communists to convinced Nazis. As Marie quickly learned, however, compassion and cruelty are very often two sides of the same coin. Fifty years later, Marie agreed to tell her story for the first time. Told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, Underground in Berlin is a book like no other, of the surreal, sometimes absurd day-to-day life in wartime Berlin. This might be just one woman's story, but it gives an unparalleled glimpse into what it truly means to be human.
A Women's Berlin
A Women's Berlin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Women's Berlin write by Despina Stratigakos. This book was released on 2008. A Women's Berlin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--BOOK JACKET.
A Woman in Berlin
A Woman in Berlin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Woman in Berlin write by Anonymous. This book was released on 2017-02-28. A Woman in Berlin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity. A Woman in Berlin stands as "one of the essential books for understanding war and life" (A. S. Byatt, author of Possession).
Berlin Coquette
Berlin Coquette - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Berlin Coquette write by Jill Suzanne Smith. This book was released on 2014-05-15. Berlin Coquette available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the "New Morality" articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the "New Woman." Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.
