The Uprooted
Description
In his new book, Andreas Kossert—the renowned expert on emigration and expulsion in the twentieth century and author of the bestselling Cold Home—places the early twenty-first-century refugee movement in a wider historical context. Movingly told and interwoven with personal accounts, The Uprooted: The Refugee in World History reveals the existential experiences of uprootedness and hostility that go hand in hand with losing one's homeland, and explains why refugees and displaced persons have always found it so difficult to settle into a new country. Whether they have come from East Prussia, Syria, or India, refugees are agents of world history—and with this book Kossert gives them a voice.
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Persons
Andreas Kossert is a historian and author, who has lived in Berlin since 2010. He is the recipient of the Georg Dehio Book Prize in 2008, the NDR Culture Non-Fiction Prize in 2020, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's "The Political Book" Prize in 2021 for his work. Most recently, he published the bestseller Cold Home: The Story of German Expellees after 1945 and Eastern Prussia: The Story of a Historical Landscape.
Jeremiah Riemer is the translator of more than fifteen books and numerous articles by German-speaking scholars and journalists. Most recently, he has published Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939: Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence by Stefanie Fischer and In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner.
Content
Part I: Anyone Can Be A Refugee Tomorrow
Refuge, Emigrant, Displaced Person, Expellee, Exile—Some Definitions
The Endless Story of Flight
Part II: Homeland: Concerning the Ambivalence of a Feeling
Leaving
Arriving
Living On
Remembering
When Have You Arrived?
What Does Not End
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Names
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