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Saving Our Survivors
- How American Jews Learned About the Holocaust
Engelsk Hardback
Saving Our Survivors
- How American Jews Learned About the Holocaust
Engelsk Hardback

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How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America, when most Jewish survivors were still stuck in European displaced persons camps? Drawing on communal records and previously unexamined cultural materials, Saving Our Survivors details the kinds of narratives that inspired American Jewish action in the wake of the Holocaust and argues that American Jewish communal life became a significant site of knowledge formation and dissemination about the Holocaust. Through organizational campaign materials, public speeches, appeal letters, brochures, posters, radio broadcasts, and short films, American Jews were compelled to act as heroes, saving Jewish lives and a Jewish future. Bringing postwar communal narratives into the longer history of Holocaust memory in America challenges our understanding of what Holocaust narratives look and sound like and invites us to consider the relationship between humanitarian aid and the narratives they employ to inspire action. By expanding our understanding of how stories about the Holocaust became part of an American discourse and considering multiple forms of Holocaust survivor accounts, Saving Our Survivors highlights the messy, diffuse, and contested nature of memory construction in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, as well as each new tragedy we confront.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780253072696
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0253072697
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Udg. Dato:
6 maj 2025
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
236mm
Forlag:
Indiana University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 maj 2025
Forfatter(e):
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