|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust
Research The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the
Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.
Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland
lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard
labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of
the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their
coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the
first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The
refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled
in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in
Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were
deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were
on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from
home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into
the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced
genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements
after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the
remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet
Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in
1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many
stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually
subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on
untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler
rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on
behalf of new generations.
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.
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.
Though over one hundred private schools for Jewish girls thrived in
the areas of Jewish settlement in the Russian empire between 1831
and 1881, their story has been largely overlooked in the
scholarship of Jewish educational history. In Her Hands: The
Education of Girls in Tsarist Russia restores these schools to
their rightful place of prominence in training thousands of Jewish
girls in secular and Judaic subjects and also paving the way for
the modern schools that followed them. Through extensive archival
research, author Eliyana R. Adler examines the schools' curriculum,
teachers, financing, students, and educational innovation and
demonstrates how each of these aspects evolved over time. The first
section of this volume follows the emergence and development of the
new private schools for Jewish girls in the mid-1800s, beginning
with the historical circumstances that enabled their creation, and
detailing the staffing, financing, and academics in the schools.
Adler dispels the myth that all education in Russia was reserved
for boys by showing that a dedicated group of educators and
administrators worked to provide new opportunities for a diverse
group of Jewish girls. In the second section, Adler looks at the
interactions between these new educational institutions and their
communities, including how the schools responded to changes taking
place around them and how they in turn influenced their
environment. Adler consults several major archives, including those
of the former Russian Ministry of Education, along with
contemporary periodicals, educational materials, and personal
memoirs to provide a remarkably complete picture of education for
Jewish girls in Russia in the mid- to late nineteenth century. In
telling the story of Russia's private schools for Jewish girls,
Adler argues that these schools were crucibles of educational
experimentation that merit serious examination. Scholars of Jewish
history, educational history, and womens' studies will enjoy this
pathbreaking study.
Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at
least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the
Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded
within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described
their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on
family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses.
 In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and
across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to
their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family
perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and
examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the
importance of recognizing how people continued to function within
family units—broadly defined—throughout the war and afterward.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|