American Jewish Loss After The Holocaust

Author : Laura Levitt
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814752173

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American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust by Laura Levitt Pdf

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up possibilities for engaging these more personal and everyday legacies. Weaving in discussions of her own family stories and writing in a manner that is both deeply personal and erudite, Levitt shows what happens when public and private losses are seen next to each other, and what happens when difficult works of art or commemoration, such as museum exhibits or films, are seen alongside ordinary family stories about more intimate losses. In so doing she illuminates how through these “ordinary stories” we may create an alternative model for confronting Holocaust memory in Jewish culture.

Author : Hasia R Diner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814720424

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We Remember with Reverence and Love by Hasia R Diner Pdf

Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis. In this compelling work, Hasia R. Diner shows the assumption of silence to be categorically false. Uncovering a rich and incredibly varied trove of remembrances—in song, literature, liturgy, public display, political activism, and hundreds of other forms—We Remember with Reverence and Love shows that publicly memorializing those who died in the Holocaust arose from a deep and powerful element of Jewish life in postwar America. Not only does she marshal enough evidence to dismantle the idea of American Jewish “forgetfulness,” she brings to life the moving and manifold ways that this widely diverse group paid tribute to the tragedy. Diner also offers a compelling new perspective on the 1960s and its potent legacy, by revealing how our typical understanding of the postwar years emerged from the cauldron of cultural divisions and campus battles a generation later. The student activists and “new Jews” of the 1960s who, in rebelling against the American Jewish world they had grown up in “a world of remarkable affluence and broadening cultural possibilities” created a flawed portrait of what their parents had, or rather, had not, done in the postwar years. This distorted legacy has been transformed by two generations of scholars, writers, rabbis, and Jewish community leaders into a taken-for-granted truth.

Author : Bruce Zuckerman,Zev Garber
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557535344

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The Impact of the Holocaust in America by Bruce Zuckerman,Zev Garber Pdf

The Jewish Role in American Life examines the complex relationship between Jews and the United States. Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II.

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015016902697

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Out of the Ashes by Yehuda Bauer Pdf

Out of the Ashes is a unique account of the contribution of American Jews to the continued survival of the remnant of European Jewry - the She'erit Hapletah - in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. As the Second World War drew to a close and the full extent of the Holocaust was revealed, the immediate American Jewish reaction of shocked silence and disbelief was soon transformed into pragmatic action: Jewish agencies throughout the US were mobilized to help the survivors and their communities to begin to rebuild shattered lives. Paramount among these organizations was the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), which since its formation in 1914 had established itself as the foremost American Jewish agency for helping fellow Jews overseas. The JDC was joined by other organizations, including the well-established HIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society) and ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation and Training). Based on a variety of sources, including the JDC archives and oral interviews, the book examines the politics and mechanics of the American Jewish intervention and assesses its extent and effect on the fate of European Jewry both in Europe and elsewhere in the years immediately after 1945.

Author : Jeffrey Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136675287

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America, American Jews, and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Gurock Pdf

This volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the holocaust and policies towards the displaced.

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064966941

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Before "The Holocaust" by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

Dismisses the historiographic tendency of the 1990s-2000s, which claims that between 1945-early 1960s the organized American Jewish community was silent on the Holocaust - i.e. survivors refused to talk and American Jews refused to listen. They contend that this deliberate policy of silence was aimed at easing the integration of the immigrant Jews in America. States that the writers representing this tendency ignore huge arrays of texts - in Yiddish, in Hebrew, but first and foremost in English - compiled by various Jewish institutions, both religious and secular, relating the events of the Holocaust to both young and old. These texts, which before 1962 functioned exclusively within the boundaries of the American Jewish world, had two aims: to institutionalize the remembrance of the Jewish victims, and to mobilize the Jewish communities to help the refugees. The tendency of ignoring the postwar Holocaust narratives emerged in the late 1960s-70s as part of a campaign to incriminate the Jewish "establishment" for its alleged indifference toward the victims - both before and after the war. After 1962, the Holocaust narratives were addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike. It became accepted due to the emergence of a new American public culture that venerated and validated discussion on group suffering.

Author : Laura Levitt
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814752319

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American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust by Laura Levitt Pdf

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up possibilities for engaging these more personal and everyday legacies. Weaving in discussions of her own family stories and writing in a manner that is both deeply personal and erudite, Levitt shows what happens when public and private losses are seen next to each other, and what happens when difficult works of art or commemoration, such as museum exhibits or films, are seen alongside ordinary family stories about more intimate losses. In so doing she illuminates how through these “ordinary stories” we may create an alternative model for confronting Holocaust memory in Jewish culture.

Author : Seymour Maxwell Finger
Publisher : American Jewish Commission
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556018163519

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American Jewry During the Holocaust by Seymour Maxwell Finger Pdf

What major Jewish American organizations tried to do, and why they couldn't succeed.

Author : Peter Novick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547349619

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The Holocaust In American Life by Peter Novick Pdf

Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem "not so bad"? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery?

Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780684848983

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The Vanishing American Jew by Alan M. Dershowitz Pdf

Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.

Author : Laura Hobson Faure
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253059697

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A "Jewish Marshall Plan" by Laura Hobson Faure Pdf

While the role the United States played in France's liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A "Jewish Marshall Plan," Laura Hobson Faure explores how American Jews committed themselves and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring much needed aid to their French coreligionists. Hobson Faure sheds light on American Jewish chaplains, members of the Armed Forces, and those involved with Jewish philanthropic organizations who sought out Jewish survivors and became deeply entangled with the communities they helped to rebuild. While well intentioned, their actions did not always meet the needs and desires of the French Jews. A "Jewish Marshall Plan" examines the complex interactions, exchanges, and solidarities created between American and French Jews following the Holocaust. Challenging the assumption that French Jews were passive recipients of aid, this work reveals their work as active partners who negotiated their own role in the reconstruction process.

Author : Henry L. Feingold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038535053

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Lest Memory Cease by Henry L. Feingold Pdf

In this groundbreaking study, Henry L. Feingold - one of the most prominent historians today - examines the special challenges facing American Jews. The twin processes of American acculturation and secularization have acted like a powerful whirlpool, pulling them away from their inherent sense of separateness as Jews. They became Americans. These thirteen essays examine the loss of Jewish identity and the survival anxiety it brought in its wake. Feingold tackles topics such as the impact of anti-Semitism in a pluralistic society, the impact of secularism on Jewish survivability, and American Jewish political culture, focusing on Jewish liberalism. As with all of Feingold's work, Lest Memory Cease forces the reader to examine a much-discussed topic in a brand new light.

Author : Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : UOM:39015042820236

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The Americanization of the Holocaust by Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld Pdf

Contends that when Americanized, the Holocaust undergoes universalization and loses its specific Jewish character. This tendency can be seen in the expositions of museums such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, as well as in the art work "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago, where the Holocaust is equated with the sufferings of the Blacks in America and the abuse of women. Another tendency is the American reluctance to confront the brutal and horrific essence of the Holocaust. For instance, the play "The Diary of Anne Frank", by F. Goodrich and A. Hackett, and the film version both downplay Anne's Jewishness and the fact that all of the characters are doomed to death. The latter tendency led to the growing cult of survivors and rescuers as the bright side of the Holocaust, manifested in Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and the proliferation of books on Righteous Gentiles, as well as the founding of the Institute of the Righteous Acts and the Jewish Foundation of Christian Rescuers by R. Schulweis. Virtuous as they are, the Gentile rescuers cannot counterbalance the evil of the Nazi Holocaust.

Author : Dorothy Rabinowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081113164

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About the Holocaust by Dorothy Rabinowitz Pdf

Author : Monty Noam Penkower
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644696811

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After the Holocaust by Monty Noam Penkower Pdf

A 2023 ASMEA Bernard Lewis Memorial Prize Finalist The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history. They include the Earl Harrison mission and significant report, the effort to keep Europe’s borders open to refugee infiltration, the murder of the first Jew in Germany after V-E Day and its aftermath, and the iconic sculptures of Nathan Rapoport and Poland’s landscape of Holocaust memory up to the present day. Joining extensive archival research and a limpid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft.