Random Destinations: Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew

by Lilian R. Furst

Random Destinations examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. They faced many concrete and psychological problems at their random destinations: language acquisition, adjustment to different moves, fitting into the community, coming to terms with having been rejected by their homeland, the conflict between the desire to remember and/or forget their past,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002S2PF1C
• ISBN13: 9781403969750
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"