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Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946 (Volume 5) (Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context, Volume 5) Hardcover – August 13, 2015
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Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946, provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and the immediate postwar years, it traces the increasingly urgent Jewish struggle for survival, which included armed resistance and organized escape attempts. Shedding light on the personal and public lives of Jews, this book provides compelling insights into a wide range of Jewish experiences during the Holocaust. Jewish individuals and communities suffered through this devastating period and reflected on the Holocaust differently, depending on their nationality, personal and communal histories and traditions, political beliefs, economic situations, and other life history. The rich spectrum of primary source material collected, including letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches and radio addresses, newspaper articles, drawings, and official government and institutional memos and reports, makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.
- Print length590 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication dateAugust 13, 2015
- Dimensions6.37 x 1.61 x 9.26 inches
- ISBN-101442243368
- ISBN-13978-1442243361
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A most welcome addition to an important series of source books on Jewish responses to the Holocaust. This concluding volume in the series offers a rich and wide-ranging set of documents that span the geographic, social, and ideological spectrum and are mindful of gender, class, and genre. This impressively contextualized collection of primary source material enriches our sense of this complex period. The book belongs on the shelves of all those teaching and researching the Holocaust and/or postwar Jewish and European history and culture.
-- Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Combining unpublished archival sources in several languages with cutting-edge scholarship, this collection breaks new ground in exposing a wide readership to primary documents that attest to the ambiguities of survival and liberation. Covering a remarkable spectrum of Holocaust experiences, the author does justice to differing Jewish outlooks and identities, sensitively illustrating challenging attempts to come to terms with loss and destruction and to find meaning in seemingly arbitrary survival. The volume opens an invaluable window onto the multifaceted ways in which Jews reflected, interpreted, and commemorated the Nazi genocide and what lessons survivors drew from their traumatic experiences in the immediate aftermath of World War II. -- Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University
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- Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 13, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 590 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1442243368
- ISBN-13 : 978-1442243361
- Item Weight : 2.34 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.37 x 1.61 x 9.26 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,083,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,630 in Jewish Social Studies
- #4,620 in History of Judaism
- #6,685 in Jewish Holocaust History
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