"We are here" : new approaches to Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany / edited by Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz

Entangled histories and lost memories: Jewish survivors in occupied Germany, 1945-49 / Atina Grossmann -- A folk monument to our destruction and heroism: Jewish historical commissions in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy / Laura Jockusch -- Representing the experiences of ch...

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Other Authors:Patt, Avinoam J. (Editor)
Berkowitz, Michael (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Detroit : Wayne State Univ. Press, 2010.
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Summary:Entangled histories and lost memories: Jewish survivors in occupied Germany, 1945-49 / Atina Grossmann -- A folk monument to our destruction and heroism: Jewish historical commissions in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy / Laura Jockusch -- Representing the experiences of children in the Holocaust: children's survivor testimonies published in Fun Letsten Hurbn, Munich, 1946-49 / Boaz Cohen -- Living in Landsberg, dreaming of Deganiah: Jewish displaced youths and Zionism after the Holocaust / Avinoam J. Patt -- Face to face: American Jews and Holocaust survivors, 1946-54 / Beth B. Cohen -- Perceptions of Jewish displaced persons as criminals in early Postwar Germany: lingering stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophecies / Michael Berkowitz and Suzanne Brown-Fleming -- The reshaping of Jewish communities and identities in Frankfurt and Zeilsheim in 1945 / Laura J. Hilton -- The experience of the displaced persons in Bergen-Belsen: unique or typical case? / Hagit Lavsky -- Jewish observance in Amalek's shadow: mourning, marriage, and birth rituals among displaced persons in Germany / Margarete Myers Feinstein -- "We long for a home": songs and survival among Jewish displaced persons / Shirli Gilbert -- Dangling roots? Yiddish language and culture in the German diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky
Physical Description:X, 357 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm
ISBN:0814333508
9780814333501