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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788034003321

Autore

Lieberman Sue

Titolo

After genocide : how ordinary Jews face the Holocaust / / by Sue Lieberman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-91065-7

0-429-89642-5

0-367-10306-0

0-429-47165-3

1-78241-333-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

253.2

Soggetti

Anglican Communion - Clergy

Genocide - History

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION "I don't know why it affects me this much"; CHAPTER ONE "A traumatised people"?; CHAPTER TWO "A profound sense of loss"; CHAPTER THREE The broken contract; CHAPTER FOUR "It's all very frightening"; CHAPTER FIVE Guilt-or shame?; CHAPTER SIX "So conflicted"; CHAPTER SEVEN Held captive?; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; REFERENCES; LIST OF RADIO PROGRAMMES, TELEVISION PROGRAMMES, AND FILMS CITED; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

2015 was the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, and, for Jews, the seventieth anniversary of the end of the worst Jewish catastrophe in diaspora history. After Genocide considers how, more than two generations since the war, the events of the Holocaust continue to haunt Jewish people and the worldwide Jewish population, even where there was no immediate family connection. Drawing from interviews with "ordinary" Jews from across the age spectrum, After Genocide focuses on the complex psychological legacy of the Holocaust. Is it, as many think, a "collective trauma"? How is a



community detached in space and time traumatised by an event which neither they nor their immediate ancestors experienced?"Ordinary" Jews' own words bring to life a narrative which looks at how commonly-recognised attributes of trauma - loss, anger, fear, guilt, shame - are integral to Jewish reactions to the Holocaust.