American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 0814343481, 9780814343487

American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust 9780814753385

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that h

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American Jewish loss after the Holocaust 9780814752319, 9780814752173

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Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades 9780814341674, 0814341675

The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On

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The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967 9780813572406

The increasingly popular genre of “alternative histories” has captivated audiences by asking questions like “what if the

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Salvage Poetics : Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies 9780814343197, 9780814343180

Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers,

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Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture During the Holocaust 9781503626713

Discovering Exile analyzes American Yiddish culture and its development during the European Holocaust and shows how our

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North American Amphibians: Distribution and Diversity 9780520956728

Some 300 species of amphibians inhabit North America. The past two decades have seen an enormous growth in interest abou

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American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? 9781441188090, 9781441126221, 9781474210454, 9781441163431

American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social exp

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The American Jewish Story through Cinema 9780292744318

Like the haggadah, the traditional “telling” of the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passo

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Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry 9780814744819

The complicity of the Hungarian Christian church in the mass extermination of Hungarian Jews by the Nazis is a largely f

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