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This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing
that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the
context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new
and existing works of fiction and memoir by writers who spent their
youths there. It explores how vacationers, resort owners, and
workers dealt with a horrific contradiction the pleasure of their
summer haven against the mass extermination of Jews throughout
Europe. It also examines the character of Holocaust survivors in
the Catskills: in what ways did they people find connection,
resolution to conflict, and avenues to come together despite the
experiences that set them apart? The book will be useful to those
studying Jewish, American, or New York history, the Holocaust and
Catskills legacy, United States immigration, American literature,
and American culture. The focus on themes of nostalgia, humor,
loss, and sexuality will draw general readers as well.
This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing
that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the
context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new
and existing works of fiction and memoir by writers who spent their
youths there. It explores how vacationers, resort owners, and
workers dealt with a horrific contradiction - the pleasure of their
summer haven against the mass extermination of Jews throughout
Europe. It also examines the character of Holocaust survivors in
the Catskills: in what ways did they people find connection,
resolution to conflict, and avenues to come together despite the
experiences that set them apart? The book will be useful to those
studying Jewish, American, or New York history, the Holocaust and
Catskills legacy, United States immigration, American literature,
and American culture. The focus on themes of nostalgia, humor,
loss, and sexuality will draw general readers as well.
Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience is the first-person
account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving
Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the
newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and
equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her
dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for
heavily censored newspapers and periodicals, Nomberg-Przytyk
witnessed firsthand the inner workings of a communist government
plagued by the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy and antisemitism that
she had been certain it would fix. Her memoir provides a
comprehensive account as she slowly changed from enthusiastic
practitioner to witness of a system that failed her and many
others. This is the first published edition of this text,
originally recorded as oral testimony in Polish but translated into
English by Paula Parsky, and includes a critical introduction by
the co-editors, American and Polish academics Holli Levitsky and
Justyna Wlodarczyk, as well as extensive annotations.
"Literature of the Holocaust" courses, whether taught in high
schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad
range of international contexts. Instructors are required,
regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become
comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books
offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the
Holocaust-whether in text, film, or material culture-are shaped by
national context, providing a valuable pedagogical source in terms
of both content and methodology. As memory yields to post-memory,
nation of origin plays a larger role in each re-telling, and the
chapters in this book explore this notion covering well-known texts
like Night (Hungary), Survival in Auschwitz (Italy), MAUS (United
States), This Way to the Gas (Poland), and The Reader (Germany),
while also introducing lesser-known representations from countries
like Argentina or Australia.
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