Displaced persons by joseph berger meaning

A wonderful memoir that sheds light on how the Holocaust affected the next generation of Jews who grew up in New York.

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Joseph Berger. In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the utterly foreign landscape of post-World War II America.

Paying eloquent homage to his parents' extraordinary courage, luck, and hard work while illuminating as never before the experience of , refugees who came to the United States between and , Joseph Berger has captured a defining moment in history in a riveting and deeply personal chronicle. Loading interface About the author. Joseph Berger 59 books 8 followers.

Displaced Persons speaks directly to a little-known slice of Holocaust history, illuminating as never before the experience of , refugees who came to the.

Joseph Berger was a reporter, editor and columnist with The New York Times from to and continues writing periodically for The Times as well as teaching urban affairs at the City University of New York. He was the recipient of the Education Writers Association award for exposing abuses in bilingual education. In September , he was appointed deputy education editor where, among other stories, he directed coverage of the firing of one chancellor and the search for another, the dramatic changes in bilingual education and a series on the first-year of a new teacher.

Prior to joining the Times, Mr. From to , he was an English teacher at a Bronx junior high school. Berger was born in Russia in , spent the postwar years in D.