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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453509703321

Titolo

Holocaust survivors : resettlement, memories, identities / / edited by Dalia Ofer, Francoise S. Ouzan, & Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-85745-248-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/15142

Soggetti

Jews - History - 1945-

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Holocaust survivors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Holocaust Survivors; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; Introduction: HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN THEIRCOUNTRIES OF RESETTLEMENT; 1. SHE'ERIT HAPLETAH: THE SURVIVING REMNANT; 2. THE IDENTITY OF WOMEN IN THE SHE'ERIT HAPLETAH; 3. REBUILDING SHATTERED LIVES; 4. ISSUES IN RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF WESTERN EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II; 5. THE POST-LIBERATION FRENCH ADMINISTRATION AND THE JEWS; 6. MENDING THE BODY, MENDING THE SOUL; 7. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ON KIBBUTZIM; 8. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN ISRAEL; 9. ROOTING THE ROOTLESS; 10. NEW ROOTS FOR THE UPROOTED

11. ATTITUDES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITYIN BUENOS AIRES TOWARDS HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, 1945-4912. WHY WE CHOSE AUSTRALIA; 13. JEWISH SHOAH SURVIVORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection



explores the survivors'' return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of per