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This is home now : Kentucky's Holocaust survivors speak /
At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Kentucky remembered.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural and social support. However, some survivors settled in rural areas throughout the country, including in Kentucky, where they encountered an entirely different set of circumstances. Although much scholarship has been devoted to Holocaust survivors living in urban contexts, little has been written about them in the context of their experiences elsewhere in America. This book presents accounts of Jewish survivors who resettled outside of the usual major metropolitan areas. Using excerpts from oral history interviews and documentary portrait photography, an author and a photographer come together to tell the fascinating stories of nine of these survivors in a unique work of history and contemporary art. The book focuses on the survivors' lives after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps, illuminating their reasons for settling in Kentucky, their initial reactions to American culture, and their reflections on integrating into rural American life. -- Publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813173429 0813173426 9780813139098 0813139090 0813135214 9780813135212 1283233541 9781283233545 9786613233547 6613233544 |