{"product_id":"jewish-responses-to-persecution-9781442243361","title":"Jewish Responses to Persecution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 19441946, 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 governm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis impressive series provides a sense of the depth and diversity of contemporary Jewish documents while embedding them in explanatory narratives. . . . Volume V of the series aims to ‘trace and complicate’ the final year of the war and the beginnings of the postwar period. Probing a relatively large amount of Yiddish sources, a substantial number in French and German, as well as a few from a host of other languages, the volume examines how writing and commemorative practices related to the Holocaust first developed. It de-centers iconic experiences in order to reveal just how fraught and complex liberation and survival really were, and how contested the meaning of key concepts such as liberation, home, and return remained shortly after the end of the Holocaust. * Yad Vashem Studies *\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003eCombining 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps  Readers’ Guide Abbreviations  Introduction and Series Postscript  PART I: THE “FINAL SOLUTION” AND THE END OF THE WAR  Chapter One: The End of the War and the Last Throes of Genocide  Resistance, Rescue, and Escape  The Last Deportations, 1944–1945  The Final Days of the Concentration Camp System  Moving Jews: Death Marches and the End of the War  Chapter Two: Experiencing “Liberation”  American Jewish Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust  Responding to the Liberators: Liberation from the Perspective  Chapter Three: Adjusting to Peace, Surviving Survival  Emerging from the Holocaust: Finding a “Home” in Postwar Europe  Surviving as Children, Reclaiming Childhood: Jewish Children after the War   PART II: JEWS ON THE MOVE: FINDING AND DEFINING “HOME” IN THE POSTWAR ERA  Chapter Four: Returning “Home”: Emigration and the Search for Postwar Normalcy  Refugees and the Postwar Landscape: Borders, Citizenship, and Nationality  Creating Homeland: Aspirations for Palestine  The Other “Promised Land”: Refugees and Survivors in the United States  A Home Elsewhere: Emigration outside Palestine and the United States  Chapter Five: Jews and Displaced Persons Camps in Postwar Europe  Jewish Involvement in DP Camp Administration  The Daily Lives of Jewish DPs: Interpreting the Holocaust from the Inside  Chapter Six: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Homeland: Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters and the Zionist Ideal  Imagining “Home:” Jewish Displaced Persons and Differing Visions of Zionism  Between Tolerance and Antisemitism: Making a Home in the Diaspora   PART III: TAKING STOCK, SEARCHING FOR JUSTICE  Chapter Seven: The Search for Relatives  Creating Lists of the Living and Lists of the Dead  “Only Sad News to Report”: Survivor Letters to Family Outside Europe  Searching for Jewish Children in the Postwar Period: The Organizational Process  Picking Up and Moving On: Grappling with Decimated Families  Chapter Eight: Punishing the Perpetrators  Official Justice: Allied War Crimes Trials  Coverage of Postwar Trials in the Jewish Press  In Pursuit of Justice: Statements of the Victims  Justice on the Local Level: Claims and Accusations  Chapter Nine: Reclaiming Possessions  Restitution in Theory and Practice: Legal Considerations  The Conversation among Jewish Communal Organizations  Restitution on the Local Level: Challenges and Roadblocks  Personal Restitution Claims   PART IV: FRAMING, DEFINING, AND REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST  Chapter Ten: Making Memory: Early Memoirs and Reflections  Early Histories of the Holocaust: An Emerging Field  Between Nostalgia and Destruction: The Role of Yitzkor Memorial Books 3 Early Postwar Memoirs and Literary Reflections  Unpublished Diaries and Memoirs in the Immediate Postwar Period  Chapter Eleven: Commemorating the Victims: Memorializing the Holocaust Marking Graves: Commemorating the Dead In Situ  Local Memories, Local Memorials: Memorializing Individual Communities  Responding Religiously: The Formation of Post-Holocaust Theologies  Emerging Centers of Jewish History and Documentation  Memorial as National Identity: The Holocaust and Prestate Israel  Chapter Twelve: The Survivors Speak: Collecting and Defining Postwar Testimony  Interviewing the Victims: Jewish Historical Commissions  Local Testimony Efforts: Interviewing Survivors in Their Former Homes “I Did Not Interview the Dead”: David Boder and the First Recorded Testimony   List of Documents  Bibliography  Glossary  Chronology  Index  About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039921373527,"sku":"9781442243361","price":51.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442243361.jpg?v=1750945258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-responses-to-persecution-9781442243361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}