The Impact of the Holocaust in America : The Jewish Role in American Life / / Bruce Zuckerman, editor ; Zev Garber, guest editor ; Jeremy Schoenberg, associate editor [and] Lisa Ansell, associate editor

• Pubblicazione: West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Jews; Civilization - Jewish influences; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Juifs - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siecle; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence; Jews - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States; United States Civilization Jewish influences Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Conference papers and proceedings.
• Soggetto non controllato: History of the Americas
• Persona (resp. second.): AnsellLisa; SchoenbergJeremy; GarberZev <1941->; ZuckermanBruce
• Note generali: "Published ... for the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life."; Consists chiefly of papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, Dec. 17-19, 2006 in San Diego.; Issued as vol. 6 of The Jewish role in American life: an annual review.
• Nota di contenuto: From case file to testimony: reconstructing survivors' first years in America / Beth Cohen -- Survivors as teachers / Michael Berenbaum -- A Jewish perspective on the global economic revolution in a post-Holocaust world / Steven Windmueller -- Bringing the Holocaust to America / Richard Libowitz -- Imagining the Shoah in American third-generation cinema / Lawrence Baron -- Thou shalt teach it to thy children: what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter J. Haas and Lee W. Haas -- The impact of the Shoah on Jewish-Christian relations / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- Post-Shoah theology and Jewish biblical interpretation in America / Marvin A. Sweeney -- A citadel fitly constructed: philo-semitism and the making of an American Holocaust conference / Zev Garber -- Association for Jewish Studies Conference, 2006: a response / Marc A. Krell.
• Sommario/riassunto: The contributions to this volume consider topics such as the immigrant experience in coming to America after the trauma of the Holocaust; how the Shoah has shaped more recent interpretation of the Hebrew Bible; the role that survivors have fulfilled in educating American youth not only about the Holocaust itself, but also about how values - especially in regard to tolerance - can and must be shaped by eye-witness testimony on the Shoah; the impact of Holocaust in film, especially in "third-generation" cinema; the issues and difficulties of presenting the Shoah in children's literature; the dialogue between Christians and Jews, especially in America, and how that dialogue has been constructively influenced and shaped by the Holocaust; the way in which Jewish business activities have altered in the post-World War II environment and in the aftermath of the Holocaust and how the lessons of the Shoah have facilitated the change from nationalist to global economy; how the image and awareness of the Holocaust developed in the American media. For all the range that these articles encompass, throughout them all runs a common theme: that the Holocaust has indelibly marked almost every aspect of American culture. We cannot think of America, American ideals and values, America's role in the world today and the future of America in an increasingly dangerous world, without recognizing that the Shoah casts a long shadow across all these concerns and serves as one of the primary points of horrific historical reference by which we, as Americans, must measure ourselves.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Impact of the Holocaust in America
• ISBN: 1-61249-663-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910597128303321
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