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**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 c

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Author

Hasia R. Diner

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814785232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Judaism, Humanities