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Online-Ressource (239 p)
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9780415616751
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For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the claims for a 'Holocaust industry' rest. Taking an international approach this bold new book exposes the myth and opens the way for a sweeping reassessment of Jewish life in the postwar era, a life lived in the pervasive, shared awareness that Jews had narrowly survived a
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Front Cover; After the Holocaust; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: David Cesarani; 1. Challenging the 'myth of silence': postwar responses to the destruction of European Jewry: David Cesarani; 2. Re-imagining the unimaginable: theater, memory, and rehabilitation in the Displaced Persons camps: Margarete Myers Feinstein; 3. No silence in Yiddish: popular and scholarly writing about the Holocaust in the early postwar years: Mark L. Smith
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4. Breaking the silence: the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris and the writing of Holocaust history in liberated France: Laura Jockusch5. Dividing the ruins: communal memory in Yiddish and Hebrew: David G. Roskies; 6. "We know very little in America": David Boder and un-belated testimony: Alan Rosen; 7. David P. Boder: Holocaust memory in Displaced Persons camps: Rachel Deblinger; 8. Authoritarianism and the making of post-Holocaust personality studies: Michael E. Staub
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9. If God was silent, absent, dead, or nonexistent, what about philosophy and theology? Some aftereffects and aftershocks of the Holocaust: John K. Roth10. Trial by audience: bringing Nazi war criminals to justice in Hollywood films, 1944-59: Lawrence Baron; 11. "This too is partly Hitler's doing": American Jewish name changing in the wake of the Holocaust, 1939-57: Kirsten Fermaglich; 12. The myth of silence: survivors tell a different story: Beth B. Cohen; 13. Origins and meanings of the myth of silence: Hasia R. Diner; Silence reconsidered: an afterword: Eric J. Sundquist; Index;
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ISBN 9780203803141
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ISBN 9780415616751
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe After the Holocaust : Challenging the Myth of Silence
Sprache:
Englisch
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Electronic books
Mehr zum Autor:
Cesarani, David 1956-2015
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