Claudia Boujeddayn (completed)

Claudia Boujeddayn studied German language and literature as well as modern and contemporary history at the University of Leipzig. Since 2013, her doctoral studies are in history at the University of Hamburg. Since 2013, she has also received a doctoral scholarship from the Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Studienwerk. Since December 2014, she is an associated member of the Ludwig Rosenberg College. The title of her dissertation is: "The political engagement of left-wing German-speaking emigrants during the period of their exile in the Mandate Palestine in the 1930s and 40s."

PhD Project

Some of the Jews who fled the National Socialists from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to the mandated territory of Palestine in the 1930s and 40s saw themselves politically decidedly on the left. In Jischuw they tried through groups and magazines to influence the discourse determined by the Zionist structure. The immigrants saw themselves at odds with the Jewish majority not only because of their political orientation: their adherence to the German language and culture also met with little approval against the background of political developments in Europe. This work also uses previously neglected sources from estates and archives to comprehensively deal with the political engagement of left-wing German-speaking immigration in the mandated territory of Palestine in the 1930s and 40s, as well as to identify the thematic priorities and conflicts that determined their work.

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