ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What organizations helped war brides, and specifically Jewish ones, with immigration to their spouses’ countries?
Robin Judd is associate professor of history at Ohio State University, where she teaches courseson Holocaust studies, modern Jewish history, German history, gender history, and history of migration. Judd has received seven teaching awards since arriving at OSU in 2000. Judd recently served as the President of the Association for Jewish Studies. She also serves as the Chair of the Leo Baeck Institute’s Academic Advisory Board, and is on the Hadassah Brandeis Institute’s Academic Review committee.
Her latest book, Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust, focuses on the experiences of predominantly female Holocaust survivors who married American, Canadian, and British military men and proceeded to immigrate to their spouses’ home countries. Judd follows the trajectories of several couples of different nationalities and circumstances and examines five different stages of their lives together: liberation, encounter, courtship and marriage, immigration, and acculturation.
Between Two Worlds won two National Jewish book awards and was named by the Jewish Women’s Archive as one of its Summer 2024 Book Club picks.
