How long does it take to read Between Dignity and Despair?
Marion A. Kaplan
Between Dignity and Despair by Marion A. Kaplan takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. This deeply moving picture of an oppressed community responding to adversity gives us a new way to address the unrelenting question, Why didn't they leave sooner? It also offers a new look at the problem, What did the Germans know and what did they do? - Back cover.
Subjects: Jews, Ethnic relations, Judenvernichtung, Social conditions, History, Joden
