Émigrés on ice
The rich social-life of German-Jewish refugees in New York includes winter sports.
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Yonkers, New York
Among the many kinds of physical activity offered to the readers of the Aufbau by the German-Jewish Club, such as ping-pong, skiing, swimming and even a Katerbummel (a morning stroll after a night of heavy drinking), there was also an invitation to go ice-skating in Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, New York. A familiar activity among sympathetic fellow German-speakers at a venue featuring a Tudor revival bathhouse may have awakened memories of better days in Europe. Despite their traumatic experiences under Nazism and their forced departure, many German Jews continued to feel a profound cultural connection to the country they had called their home.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
“Februar-Programm des deutsch-jüdischen Clubs,” Aufbau, Vol. 4, no. 3, p. 3.
