Holocaust survivors : resettlement, memories, identities / edited by Dalia Ofer, Francoise S. Ouzan, & Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ofer, Dalia, editor.

Ouzan, Francoise S., editor.

Baumel-Schwartz, Judy Tydor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust survivors--Congresses.

Holocaust survivors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Summary:

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection explores the survivors’ return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of perspectives, disciplines, and communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction. Holocaust Survivors in their Countries of Resettlement: Time, Space, and Identities

Chapter 1. She’erit Hapletah—The Surviving Remnant: An Overview

Chapter 2. The Identity of Women in the She’erit Hapletah: Personal and Gendered Identity as Determinants in Rehabilitation, Immigration, and Resettlement

Chapter 3. Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Some Vignettes of Jewish Children’s Lives in Early Postwar Poland

Chapter 4. Issues in Religious and Educational Reform in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe after World War II

Chapter 5. The Post-Liberation French Administration and the Jews

Chapter 6. Mending the Body, Mending the Soul: Members of Youth Aliyah Take a Look at Themselves and at Others

Chapter 7. Holocaust Survivors on Kibbutzim: Resettling Unsettled Memories

Chapter 8. Holocaust Survivors in Israel: Time for an Initial Taking of Stock

Chapter 9. Rooting the Rootless: The Absorption of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Rural Settlements

Chapter 10. New Roots for the Uprooted: Holocaust Survivors as Farmers in America

Chapter 11. Attitudes of the Jewish Community in Buenos Aires towards Holocaust Survivors, 1945–49

Chapter 12. Why We Chose Australia

Chapter 13. Jewish Shoah Survivors: Neediness Assessment and Resource Allocation

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857452481

0857452487

OCLC:

875819182