Jewish families in Europe, 1939-present : history, representation, and memory

Jewish families in Europe, 1939-present : history, representation, and memory / edited by Joanna Beata Michlic.

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes ex...

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Other Authors: Michlic, Joanna B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2017]
Series:HBI series on Jewish women.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Jewish families > Europe > History > 20th century.
Jewish families > Europe > History > 21st century.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors.
HISTORY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Holocaust survivors
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Jewish families
Europe
Electronic books.
History
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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 / Joanna Beata Michlic
  • 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
  • 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.

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