Based on than thirty years archival research this history of the Jewish and German Jewish community of Hamburg is a unique and vivid piece of work by one of the leading historians of the twentieth century The history of the Holocaust here is fully integrated into the full history of the Jewish community in Hamburg from the late eighteenth century onwards J. S Grenville draws on a vast quantity of diaries letters and records to provide a macro level history of Hamburg interspersed with many personal stories that bring it vividly to life In the concluding chapter the discussion is widened to talk about Hamburg as a case study in the wider world This book will be a key work in European history charting and explaining the complexities of how a long established and well integrated German Jewish community became within the space of a generation victims of the Nazi Holocaust The Jews and Germans of HamburgBorn Hans Guhrauer John Ashley Soames Grenville left Germany for Great Britain in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport He attended Birkbeck College and the London School of Economics where he studied under Sir Charles Webster and received a First Class Honours Degree in History in 1951 and a PhD for which he was awarded the Hutchinson Medal in 1953 Grenville began his academic career at the University of Nottingham where he was an assistant Lecturer and Reader in History He was Professor of International History at the University of Leeds from 1966 to 1969 then Professor and Head of the Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham from 1969 to 1994 He later worked at Hamburg University and Londons Leo Baeck Institut Born Hans Guhrauer John Ashley Soames Grenville left Germany for Great Britain in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport He attended Birkbeck College and the London School of Economics where he studied under Sir Charles Webster and received a First Class Honours Degree in History in 1951 and a PhD for which he was awarded the Hutchinson Medal in 1953 Grenville began his academic career at the University of Nottingham where he was an assistant Lecturer and Reader in History He was Professor of International History at the University of Leeds from 1966 to 1969 then Professor and Head of the Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham from 1969 to 1994 He later worked at Hamburg University and London s Leo Baeck Institute site_link..A
