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Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades

Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades

Adler, Eliyana R.
Jelen, Sheila E.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryHolocaust

ISBN10: 0814344372
ISBN13: 9780814344378
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.53
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest until suddenly reawakened by the 1967 Six-Day War and its implications for world Jewry. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that previous assumptions about the early silence of American Jewry with regard to the Holocaust were exaggerated. And while historians have expanded their borders and definitions to encompass the postwar decades, scholars from other disciplines have been paying increasing attention to the unique literary, photographic, artistic, dramatic, political, and other cultural creations of this period and the ways in which they hearken back to not only the Holocaust itself but also to images of prewar Eastern Europe.

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