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Wehmut ums Westend : Jugenderinnerungen eines alten Frankfurters /
No full textMemoir by Hans Salfield, written in 1976, including information on his mother's upbringing and her family: feminist and social activities of his eccentric grandmother; nostalgic reminiscences on his childhood and youth in a well-to-do Jewish family in the Frankfurt Westend; nannies and tutors in French and piano; growing up in an assimilated Jewish society; interesting observations on social conventions, cultural norms and gender relations; outstanding personalities of the Frankfurt Westend; description of family members; early interest in medicine; encounter with Albert Schweitzer; recollections of World War I and the aftermath of the revolution; humanistic high school education (Gymnasium); excursions in the mountains (Sonnwendfeier); memories of his first romantic involvements; medical studies in Bonn, Koeln and Freiburg; student life and encounters with male and female colleagues; research on the Salfeld family heritage reaching back to the 18th and 19th century; reflecting on the ambivalence highly assimilated Jewish conservatives faced in the course of political changes in Germany; bewilderment and shock due to the circumstances and consequences of the Nazi take-over in 1933; difficulties finishing his studies with Jewish professors disappearing and Jewish students expelled from the university; graduation without permission to practice his profession; friends and family members leaving the country; emigration to the United States in 1934; difficult start as a physician in New York; disappearance of the Westend world of his childhood days.The physician Hans Salfield was born 1910 in an upper class Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main. His father was a lawyer; his grandfather, Oberrabbiner of Mainz, was a highly-respected historian and scholar of Jewish studies. Hans Salfield immigrated to the United States in 1934. He was a member of the World Medical Association and the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The author has published several articles and books regarding the problems of modern scientific civilization.Synopsis in fileBonnCologneFreiburgAmerican Academy of Pharmaceutical SciencesWorld Medical AssociationAssimilationChildhoodCourtshipEducation, primary and secondary; 1871-1918Education, primary and secondary; 1918-1933Germany--History--1871-1918Germany--History--1918-1933Germany--History--1933-1945Imperial GermanyRevolution; 1918-1919Weimar German
