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Book SynopsisRepresenting scholars from different countries and different disciplines, this collection explores Holocaust survivors' return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various countries. Thus, it offers a rich mix of perspectives, disciplines, and communities.Trade Review “This is a well-conceived volume that addresses a significant problem in the history of the Jews in the twentieth century - how survivors of the Holocaust resettled in many parts of the world, rebuilt (or failed to rebuild) their personal lives, and contributed (or did not contribute) to the development of Jewish communities and cultures in their new countries of residence. It is unique in both its interdisciplinary character and geographical scope.” · David Engel, New York University “…an important contribution to the evolving field of research on Jewish life in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Almost every chapter introduces new research on unexamined areas of postwar Jewish history… By framing the study in a broad comparative manner, the book is one of the first of its kind and will make for essential reading in the field.” · Avinoam Patt, University of HartfordTable of Contents 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

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Diverging groups of Jewish Displaced Persons Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan PART ONE: THE PLIGHT OF THE UPROOTED: SOCIAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II Sergio DellaPergola The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 Jacques Amar Healthcare Services for Holocaust Survivors in Post-war Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity Ada Schein PART TWO: POST-WAR JEWISH MIGRATION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland Kateřina Čapková The Post-war Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) Ján Laniček PART THREE: POST-WAR RECONSTITUTION OF JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITIES Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors Izio Rosenman American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) Françoise S. Ouzan A Forgotten Post-war Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 David Weinberg The Post-war Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands Manfred Gerstenfeld PART FOUR: EMIGRATING TO ISRAEL FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 Ewa Węgrzyn Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations Shmuel Trigano The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems Yigal Bin-Nun Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950s Rafi Mann

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