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Reconstructing The Old Country - American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,858
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Reconstructing The Old Country - American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (Hardcover): Eliyana R. Adler, Sheila E. Jelen

Reconstructing The Old Country - American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (Hardcover)

Eliyana R. Adler, Sheila E. Jelen

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Interdisciplinary overview of American Jewish life post-Holocaust. The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest until suddenly reawakened by the 1967 Six-Day War and its implications for world Jewry. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that previous assumptions about the early silence of American Jewry with regard to the Holocaust were exaggerated. And while historians have expanded their borders and definitions to encompass the postwar decades, scholars from other disciplines have been paying increasing attention to the unique literary, photographic, artistic, dramatic, political, and other cultural creations of this period and the ways in which they hearken back to not only the Holocaust itself but also to images of prewar Eastern Europe. Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades brings together scholars of literature, art, history, ethnography, and related fields to examine how the American Jewish community in the post-Holocaust era was shaped by its encounter with literary relics, living refugees, and other cultural productions which grew out of an encounter with Eastern European Jewish life from the pre-Holocaust era.

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Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2017
Editors: Eliyana R. Adler • Sheila E. Jelen
Dimensions: 279 x 177mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4437-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-8143-4437-2
Barcode: 9780814344378

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