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Reconstructing the Old Country : American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades by Eliyana R. Adler -- Sheila E. Jelen -- Hasia Diner -- Eliyana R. Adler -- Sheila E. Jelen -- Eli Lederhendler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Cover 1 Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Preface: Encountering the Holocaust: Postwar American Jewry and the Catastrophe 12 Introduction: On Account of a Suit: American-Jewish Encounters with Eastern European Jewish Life in Fantasy and Reality 20 The Eastern European Jewish Past and Its Historians: Cultural Interventions in Postwar America 40 ￢ﾀﾜOne of the Greatest Martyrologies￢ﾀﾝ: The Black Book of Polish Jewry and the Beginnings of Holocaust Memory in the United States 63 Mapping a Lost World: Postwar Jews and (Re)creating the Past in Memorial Books 87 Partisan Reviews and Commentaries on Eastern European Judaism: Postwar American-Jewish Intellectual Journals and the Reconstruction of the Eastern European Past 106 A Mid-Twentieth-Century Quest for Jewish Authenticity: The Yiddish Daily Forverts￢ﾀﾙ Warming to Religion 130 A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Salvage Montage and the Anti-Shtetl 154 ￢ﾀﾜThe Shkotsim Were Even Worse Than the Dogs￢ﾀﾝ: Yiddish Memoirists and the Reimagining of the Eastern European Jewish Experience in Postwar America 171 Constructing the Eastern European Jewish Past in Post-Holocaust Children￢ﾀﾙs Literature (1950￢
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- Author
- Eliyana R. Adler -- Sheila E. Jelen -- Hasia Diner -- Eliyana R. Adler -- Sheila E. Jelen -- Eli Lederhendler
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814341667
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Humanities
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