No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Africa

by Peter Fraenkel Ph.D.

Overview

Peter Fraenkel here gives a vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939. Here the contrast could hardly be greater, from persecuted Jew, to 'enemy alien' in colonial Northern Rhodesia, to re-assimilation into the privileged colonial elite. Following education in Northern and Southern Rhodesia he worked for the Northern Rhodesian and later, Central Broadcasting Service. Here his pioneering work and support for racial equality in a deeply racist society connected with his earlier life - 'no fixed abode' but in tune with humane liberalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850436263
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/28/2005
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Peter Fraenkel Ph.D. is an internationally-known couple therapist with over 20 years of experience in private practice. A professor of clinical psychology at the City University of New York, where he teaches couple and family therapy, he is the founder and director of the Ackerman Institute for the Family's Center for Work and Family, former Vice President of the American Family Therapy Academy, and past director of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP©) at NYU’s Child Study Center. He is the author of Sync Your Relationship, Save Your Marriage. Dr. Fraenkel has appeared frequently as a relationship expert on national and international television and radio, and in newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, New York Post, New York Observer, O Magazine, Redbook, SELF, Parent Guide, and Men's Health. He serves as a board member of the Take Back Your Time initiative. Married and the father of two children, in his spare time, he is a professional jazz drummer and draws upon his knowledge of music to provide a unique perspective on the rhythms of romantic relationships.

Table of Contents

Part I: Silesia
• Roots in the Air
• But we were Germans
• We became Jews
• Exodus
• Where you die of hunger doesn't make much of a difference, does it?
• Part II: Rhodesia
• Encountering Dimitrov and Macbeth
• Quit you like men
• Red Thug?
• Becoming a Bwana
• Out of the saucepan
• Vultures high and low
• Vampiremen
• Searchlights in the dark
• The Watch on the Rhine
• Index