Postwar Jewish displacement and rebirth, 1945-1967 / edited by Françoise S. Ouzan and Manfred Gerstenfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ouzan, Françoise, editor.

Gerstenfeld, Manfred, editor.

Series:

Jewish identities in a changing world ; Volume 23.

Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 1570-7997 ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Congresses.

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--History--1945---Congresses.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination. This book is also available in paperback.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction—Diverging Groups of Jewish Displaced Persons / Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan

Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II / Sergio Della Pergola

The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 / Jacques Amar

Health Care Services for Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity / Schein Schein

Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia and Poland / Kateřina Čapková

The Postwar Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) / Ján Lániček

Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors / Izio Rosenman

American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) / Françoise S. Ouzan

A Forgotten Postwar Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 / David Weinberg

The Postwar Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands / Manfred Gerstenfeld

Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 / Ewa Węgrzyn

Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations / Shmuel Trigano

The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems / Yigal Bin-Nun

Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950's / Rafi Mann

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27777-3

OCLC:

883834713