Holocaust Survivors

Resettlement, Memories, Identities
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-247-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection explores the survivors’ return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of perspectives, disciplines, and communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ofer, Dalia

Ouzan, Françoise S

Baumel-Schwartz, Judy Tydor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction: Holocaust Survivors in their Countries of Resettlement: Time, Space, and Identities

Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan, and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Chapter 1. She’erith Ha-pletah - The Surviving Remnant: An Overview

Zeev Mankowitz

Chapter 2. Personal Identity and Gendered Identity of Women in the She’erit Ha-pletah as Determinants in their Rehabilitation, Immigration, and Resettlement

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Chapter 3. Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Some Vignettes of Jewish Children’s Lives in Early Postwar Poland

Joanna B. Michlic

Chapter 4. Issues in Religious and Educational Reform in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe after World War II

David Weinberg

Chapter 5. The Post-Liberation French Administration and the Jews

Jean-Marc Dreyfus

Chapter 6. Mending the Body, Mending the Soul: Members of Youth Aliyah Take a Look at Themselves and at Others

Dalia Ofer

Chapter 7. Holocaust Survivors on Kibbutzim: Resettling Unsettled Memories

Micha Balf

Chapter 8. Holocaust Survivors in Israel: Time for an Initial Taking of Stock

Hannah Yablonka

Chapter 9. Rooting the Rootless: The Absorption of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Rural Settlements

Ada Schein

Chapter 10. New Roots for the Uprooted: Shoah Survivors as Farmers in America

Françoise S. Ouzan

Chapter 11. Attitudes of the Jewish Community in Buenos Aires towards Holocaust Survivors, 1945–49

Leo Senkman

Chapter 12. Why We Chose Australia

Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Chapter 13. Jewish Shoah Survivors: Neediness Assessment and Resource Allocation

Sergio Della Pergola

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ouzan, Françoise S
Françoise S. Ouzan received a PhD in History from the Sorbonne; she was an Associate Professor at the University of Rheims prior to her current positions as Senior Researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University, Associate Researcher at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ/CNRS), and Lecturer at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. Her major publications on displaced persons, anti-Semitism, and American Jewry include: Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas (Complexe 1995);  Histoire des Américains juifs (André Versaille 2008); De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (edited with Dan Michman, CNRS éditions 2008); and a historical novel, Demain, nous partons (Bibliophane 2007). She participated in the Dictionnaire de la Shoah (Larousse 2009) and in the documentary La vie après la Shoah (The Shoah's Aftermath) by F. Gillery (2009).

Baumel-Schwartz, Judy Tydor
Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is chair of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry, Director of the Institute for Religious Zionism and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to the Holocaust, gender, memory, the State of Israel, and commemoration. Among her books are Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell 1998) and Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Collective Israeli Memory (Wisconsin University Press 2010).

Ofer, Dalia
Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies (Emeritus) at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, the University of Maryland, and Stockton College. She is the author and editor of seven books and numerous articles on the daily life in Eastern European ghettos, rescue during the Holocaust, immigration to Palestine and Israel, and the memory of  the Holocaust in Israel. She received the Ben Zvi Award for Derech Bayam: Aliyah Bet Bitkufat Hashoah (Yad Ben Zvi 1988) and the Jewish Book Award for Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel (Oxford University Press 1992). Her edited volume (with Lenore J. Weitzman) Women in the Holocaust (Yale University Press 1998) was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award 2000. Recently, she edited (with Paula Hyman) the online Historical Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women Archives 2007).

Françoise S. Ouzan received a PhD in History from the Sorbonne; she was an Associate Professor at the University of Rheims prior to her current positions as Senior Researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University, Associate Researcher at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ/CNRS), and Lecturer at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. Her major publications on displaced persons, anti-Semitism, and American Jewry include: Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas (Complexe 1995);  Histoire des Américains juifs (André Versaille 2008); De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (edited with Dan Michman, CNRS éditions 2008); and a historical novel, Demain, nous partons (Bibliophane 2007). She participated in the Dictionnaire de la Shoah (Larousse 2009) and in the documentary La vie après la Shoah (The Shoah's Aftermath) by F. Gillery (2009).