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Reconstructing the Old Country : American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Encountering the Holocaust: Postwar American Jewry and the Catastrophe; Introduction: On Account of a Suit: American-Jewish Encounters with Eastern European Jewish Life in Fantasy and Reality; Part I: Refugees: Commemorating the Past; The Eastern European Jewish Past and Its Historians: Cultural Interventions in Postwar America; "One of the Greatest Martyrologies": The Black Book of Polish Jewry and the Beginnings of Holocaust Memory in the United States
- Mapping a Lost World: Postwar Jews and (Re)creating the Past in Memorial BooksPartisan Reviews and Commentaries on Eastern European Judaism: Postwar American-Jewish Intellectual Journals and the Reconstruction of the Eastern European Past; A Mid-Twentieth-Century Quest for Jewish Authenticity: The Yiddish Daily Forverts' Warming to Religion; Part II: Literature: Inventing a Legacy; A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Salvage Montage and the Anti-Shtetl; "The Shkotsim Were Even Worse Than the Dogs": Yiddish Memoirists and the Reimagining of the Eastern European Jewish Experience in Postwar America
- Constructing the Eastern European Jewish Past in Post-Holocaust Children's Literature (1950-1975)"You Have Known Them with Your Eyes": Dusk in the Catskills as Postwar Literary Legacy; Leon Uris's Mila 18, Muscular Judaism, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in American Culture; Part III: Politics: Mobilizing for the Future; Purim, Passover, and Pilgrims: Symbols of Survival and Sacrifice in American Postwar Holocaust Survivor Narratives; Canadian Communist J.B. Salsberg and the Response to Soviet Jewry in the Wake of the Holocaust
- In the Presence of the Past: Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Holocaust Memory, and the Fight for Jewish Survival in Postwar AmericaHaunted by History, Fueled by the Present: American-Jewish Efforts to Halt Poland's Anti-Zionist Campaign; Contributors; Index