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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.
While the role the United States played in France's liberation from
Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that
American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to
reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A "Jewish
Marshall Plan," Laura Hobson Faure explores how American Jews
committed themselves and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring
much needed aid to their French coreligionists. Hobson Faure sheds
light on American Jewish chaplains, members of the Armed Forces,
and those involved with Jewish philanthropic organizations who
sought out Jewish survivors and became deeply entangled with the
communities they helped to rebuild. While well intentioned, their
actions did not always meet the needs and desires of the French
Jews. A "Jewish Marshall Plan" examines the complex interactions,
exchanges, and solidarities created between American and French
Jews following the Holocaust. Challenging the assumption that
French Jews were passive recipients of aid, this work reveals their
work as active partners who negotiated their own role in the
reconstruction process.
While the role the United States played in France's liberation from
Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that
American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to
reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A "Jewish
Marshall Plan," Laura Hobson Faure explores how American Jews
committed themselves and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring
much needed aid to their French coreligionists. Hobson Faure sheds
light on American Jewish chaplains, members of the Armed Forces,
and those involved with Jewish philanthropic organizations who
sought out Jewish survivors and became deeply entangled with the
communities they helped to rebuild. While well intentioned, their
actions did not always meet the needs and desires of the French
Jews. A "Jewish Marshall Plan" examines the complex interactions,
exchanges, and solidarities created between American and French
Jews following the Holocaust. Challenging the assumption that
French Jews were passive recipients of aid, this work reveals their
work as active partners who negotiated their own role in the
reconstruction process.
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