Jewish families in Europe, 1939-Present : history, representation, and memory / Joanna Beata Michlic, editor

Despite many decades of publishing on the Holocaust, there is still surprisingly little scholarship on women, children, and the family. This book fills that gap by offering diverse essays on how WWII, the Holocaust, and the aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especiall...

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Other Authors:Michlic, Joanna Beata (Editor)
Format: Online-Resource
Language:English
Published:Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2017]
Berlin, © 2017
Series:HBI Series on Jewish Women
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Table of Contents
Foreword Sylvia Barack Fishman
Preface Joanna Beata Michlic
Jewish Families in Europe, 1939–Present: History, Representation, and Memory An Introduction
PART I: PARENTHOOD AND CHILDHOOD UNDER SIEGE, 1939–1945
; Parenthood in the Shadow of the Holocaust Dalia Ofer
Clandestine Activities and Concealed Presence: A Case Study of Children in the Kraków Ghetto Joanna Sliwa
Resistance in Everyday Life: Family Strategies, Role Reversals, and Role Sharing in the Holocaust Lenore J. Weitzman
The National Institute for the Israelite Deaf-Mute in Budapest, 1938–1948: A Case Study for the Rescue Strategy of Continuously Operating Jewish Communal Institutions Kinga Frojimovics
Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald Kenneth Waltzer
Life in Hiding and Beyond Jennifer Marlow
PART II: AFTER THE WAR: REBUILDING SHATTERED LIVES, RECOLLECTING WARTIME EXPERIENCES.=505 00 ; A Zionist Home: Jewish Youths and the Kibbutz Family after the Holocaust Avinoam Patt
What Does a Child Remember? Recollections of the War and the Early Postwar Period among Child Survivors from Poland Joanna Beata Michlic
Memory Imprints: Testimonies as Historical Sources Rita Horváth
“I Will Not Be Believed”: Benjamin Tenenbaum and the Representation of the Child Survivor Boaz Cohen and Gabriel N. Finder
Transcending Memory in Holocaust Survivors’ Families Uta Larkey
Holocaust Child Survivors, Sixty-Five Years after Liberation: From Mourning to Creativity Eva Fogelman
Afterword: In Defense of Eyewitness Testimonies: Reflections of a Writer and Child Survivor of the Holocaust Henryk Grynberg
List of Contributors
; Index