Diner (American Jewish History/New York Univ.; The Jews of the
United States, 1654 to 2000, 2004, etc.) hurls a passionate,
well-delineated attack on the conventional view that postwar Jews
and survivors wanted to forget the Holocaust rather than
memorialize the tragedy.Responding to what she considers the
"slipshod scholarship" of works such as Peter Novick's The
Holocaust in American Life (1999) and Norman Finkelstein's The
Holocaust Industry (2000), the author summons considerable evidence
to support her thesis. Scouring the archives of synagogues,
schools, Jewish organizations, newspapers, periodicals, radio and
TV programs and government agencies, she uncovers a rich and varied
history of how Jews have incorporated and made sense of the
Holocaust. She marshals her research into two groups. The first is
remembrance of the Holocaust internally generated by Jewish
sources, including the erection of memorials, additions to the
Jewish liturgy and calendar, textbooks, articles, plays and
pageants enacting the Warsaw uprising. The second is the
commemorative culture driven by global events, such as the creation
of Israel and the settlement of Displaced Persons, the Cold War,
the publications of The Wall by John Hersey and The Diary of Anne
Frank, the clamor for German responsibility and restitution and the
trial and execution of Adolph Eichmann. Diner is particularly
compelling in her exploration of how the postwar Jewish liberal
agenda - transformed by the experience of the Holocaust,
immigration discrimination and anti-Semitism in America - boldly
embraced the civil-rights crusade.A work of towering research and
conviction that will surely enliven academic debates for years to
come. (Kirkus Reviews)
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 campus battles a generation later. The student activists and
"new Jews" of the 1960s who, in rebelling against the American
Jewish world they had grown up in "a world of remarkable affluence
and broadening cultural possibilities" created a flawed portrait of
what their parents had, or rather, had not, done in the postwar
years. This distorted legacy has been transformed by two
generations of scholars, writers, rabbis, and Jewish community
leaders into a taken-for-granted truth.
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