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America Jewish loss after the Holocaust / Laura Levitt

New York : New York University Press, c2007 [©2007]

Online-Ressource (xxviii, 283 p) : ill ; 23 cm

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Unraveling, a Personal Story; Introduction: Indirection and Ordinary Jews; 1. Looking Out from under a Long Shadow; 2 Postmarked Pictures; 3 Secret Stashes; 4 Mary, Irena, and Me: Keepers of Accounts; Conclusion: Other Ghosts, Other Encounters, Other Communities; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-271) and index

Print version: American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

0-8147-5217-9 ; 978-0-8147-5217-3

978-0-8147-5217-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 874362433     

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

E184.36.E84

305.892/4073 ; 305.892     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Jews -- United States -- Identity ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts ; Levitt, Laura -- 1960-

Levitt, Laura ; Electronic books

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up p