| Description |
1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Cesarani -- Challenging the 'myth of silence': postwar responses to the destruction of European Jewry / David Cesarani -- Re-imagining the unimaginable: theater, memory, and rehabilitation in the displaced persons camps / Margarete Myers Feinstein -- No silence in Yiddish: popular and scholarly writing about the Holocaust in the early postwar years / Mark L. Smith -- Breaking the silence: the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris and the writing of Holocaust history in liberated France / Laura Jockusch -- Dividing the ruins: communal memory in Yiddish and Hebrew / David G. Roskies -- "We know very little in America": David Boder and un-belated testimony / Alan Rosen -- David P. Boder: Holocaust memory in displaced persons camps / Rachel Deblinger -- Authoritarianism and the making of post-Holocaust personality studies / Michael E. Staub -- If God was silent, absent, dead, or nonexistent, what about philosophy and theology? Some aftereffects and aftershocks of the Holocaust / John K. Roth -- Trial by audience: bringing Nazi war criminals to justice in Hollywood films, 1944-59 / Lawrence Baron -- "This too is partly Hitler's doing": American Jewish name changing in the wake of the Holocaust, 1930-57 / Kirsten Fermaglich -- The myth of silence: survivors tell a different story / Beth B. Cohen -- Origins and meanings of the myth of silence / Hasia R. Diner -- Silence reconsidered: an afterword / Eric J. Sundquist |
| Summary |
For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the claims for a 'Holocaust industry' rest. Taking an international approach this bold new book exposes the myth and opens the way for a sweeping reassessment of Jewish life in the postwar era, a life lived in the pervasive, shared awareness that Jews had narrowly survived |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Memory -- Social aspects
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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Ethics
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Historiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Judenvernichtung
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Judenvernichtung.
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Geschichtsschreibung.
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Kollektives Gedächtnis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cesarani, David
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Sundquist, Eric J
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| LC no. |
2011015444 |
| ISBN |
9780203803141 |
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0203803140 |
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9781136631726 |
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1136631720 |
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1283459612 |
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9781283459617 |
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9781136631672 |
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1136631674 |
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9781136631719 |
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1136631712 |
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9786613459619 |
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6613459615 |
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