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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166953903321

Autore

Michlic Joanna Beata

Titolo

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present : History, Representation, and Memory / / edited by Joanna Beata Michlic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, MA, USA, : Brandeis University Press, 2017

Waltham, Massachusetts : , : Brandeis University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-5126-0011-3

1-5126-0078-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiv, 272 pages)

Collana

HBI series on Jewish women

Disciplina

306.85/089924

Soggetti

Holocaust survivors

Jewish children in the Holocaust

Jewish families - Europe - History - 21st century

Jewish families - Europe - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family unit; the transformation of gender roles under duress; youth's wartime and early postwar experiences; postwar reconstruction of the Jewish family; rehabilitation of Jewish children and youth; and the role of Zionism in shaping the present and future of young survivors.Relying on newly available archival material and novel research in the areas of families, youth, rescue, resistance, gender, and memory, this volume will be an indispensable guide to current work on the familial and social history of the Holocaust.