Background
Jacobson, Kenneth Mark was born on September 30, 1949 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Norman and Jean Charlotte (Pines) Jacobson.
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Nazi Germany's Final Solution confronted Jews caught in its web with the ultimate challenge to identity - all those who fit the Nazis' purportedly racial notion of "Jew" were placed under sentence of death, irrespective of how they lived, what they believed, or who they took themselves to be. Their very origins having become an inexorable threat to their existence, these people were forced to come to grips - consciously or unconsciously, in word or deed - with their Jewishness. Embattled Selves presents the life stories of fifteen men and women who discovered, concealed, embraced, or rejected their Jewishness as a result of Nazi persecution. Theirs are atypical stories, the stories of people whose physical and spiritual survival came to depend on the mutability of the self. In these pages we meet those who shed their Jewishness to become lost in the crowd; those who, never having considered themselves Jews, had Jewishness thrust upon them; those who defiantly proclaimed their Jewishness despite the consequences; and those who went beyond concealment to join the forces of genocide. Told against the backdrop of the horrors of World War II, these narratives combine the tantalizing suspense of adventure stories with the vivid detail of the best of oral history. Throughout, however, the focus is on identity. The words these survivors speak as they recreate the historical and mental universe in which they lived, as they tell of the choices they made and the paths they took, dramatically highlight questions that concern all of us. In today's world of ethnic reawakening and shifting political boundaries, these stories have a particular urgency.
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Jacobson, Kenneth Mark was born on September 30, 1949 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Norman and Jean Charlotte (Pines) Jacobson.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1971.
Sports writer Berkeley Daily Gazette, 1965-1967, 69-72. Reporter Associated Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1973-1975. Correspondent McGraw-Hill World News, Paris, 1975-1978.
Freelance journalist, writer Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, Antwerp, Boston, 1978-1985. Associate editor Metals Week (McGraw-Hill, Inc.), New York City, 1985-1986, senior editor, 1986-1988, managing editor, 1988-1989, editor-in-chief, 1990-1991. Freelance journalist, writer New York City, Santiago, Chile, 1991-1993.
Editor New Technology Week, Washington, 1993-1998. Writer Washington and Annapolis, Maryland, since 1998. Senior editor Manufacturing and Technology News, Washington, District of Columbia, 2005—2007.
Professional staff member Committee Science & Technology, Subcommittee Investigations & Oversight, United States House of Representatives, Washington, since 2007.
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Board directors Greater Washington Jewish Humanist Congregation Beth Chai, since 2004. Member Phi Beta Kappa.