After the Holocaust
Challenging the Myth of Silence
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2011
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-415-61675-1 (ISBN)
Description
For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the claims for a 'Holocaust industry' rest. Taking an international approach this bold new book exposes the myth and opens the way for a sweeping reassessment of Jewish life in the postwar era, a life lived in the pervasive, shared awareness that Jews had narrowly survived a catastrophe that had engulfed humanity as a whole but claimed two-thirds of their number.
The chapters include:
an overview of the efforts by survivor historians and memoir writers to inform the world of the catastrophe that had befallen the Jews of Europe
an evaluation of the work of survivor-historians and memoir writers
new light on the Jewish historical commissions and the Jewish documentation centres
studies of David Boder, a Russian born psychologist who recorded searing interviews with survivors, and the work of philosophers, social thinkers and theologians
theatrical productions by survivors and the first films on the theme made in Hollywood
how the Holocaust had an impact on the everyday life of Jews in the USA
and a discussion of the different types, and meanings, of 'silence'.
A breakthrough volume in the debate about the 'Myth of Silence', this is a must for all students of Holocaust and genocide.
The chapters include:
an overview of the efforts by survivor historians and memoir writers to inform the world of the catastrophe that had befallen the Jews of Europe
an evaluation of the work of survivor-historians and memoir writers
new light on the Jewish historical commissions and the Jewish documentation centres
studies of David Boder, a Russian born psychologist who recorded searing interviews with survivors, and the work of philosophers, social thinkers and theologians
theatrical productions by survivors and the first films on the theme made in Hollywood
how the Holocaust had an impact on the everyday life of Jews in the USA
and a discussion of the different types, and meanings, of 'silence'.
A breakthrough volume in the debate about the 'Myth of Silence', this is a must for all students of Holocaust and genocide.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
8 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-61675-1 (9780415616751)
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Persons
David Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written and edited over a dozen books, including Justice Delayed: How Britain Became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals (1992; 2d edition 2001), Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (1998), Eichmann: His life and crimes (2004), and Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal, and Britain's war against Jewish Terrorism, 1945-1948 (2009). For his work in establishing a Holocaust Memorial Day in Great Britain he was awarded an OBE in 2005
Eric J. Sundquist is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at John Hopkins University, USA. His publications include Kings Dream (2009), Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005) and To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993).
Eric J. Sundquist is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at John Hopkins University, USA. His publications include Kings Dream (2009), Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005) and To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993).
Content
Introduction David Cesarani 1. There was no silence: an overview of post-war responses to the destruction of European Jewry David Cesarani 2. Acting the Part: Theatrical Interpretations of the Holocaust in the Displaced Persons Camps of Germany Margarete Feinstein 3. No Silence in Yiddish: Popular and scholarly writing about the Holocaust in the early postwar years Mark Smith 4. The Centre Documentation Juive Comptemporaine, Paris, 1945-1955 Laura Jockusch 5. The drowned and the saved: communal memory 1945-1960 David Roskies 6. "We know very little in America": David Boder and Un-Belated Testimony Alan Rosen 7. David P. Boder: Indexing a Holocaust Testimony Collection Rachel Deblinger 8. Shame and the 'musselmanner' in early literature of the camps Timothy Pytell 9. Authoritarianism and the Making of Post-Holocaust Personality Studies Michael Staub 10. If God Was Silent, Absent, Dead, or Nonexistent, What about Philosophy and theology? Some Aftereffects and Aftershocks of the Holocaust John Roth 11. Trial by Audience: Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice in Hollywood Films, 1944-1959 Lawrence Baron 12. "This too is partly Hitler's doing": American Jewish debates over name-changing in the wake of the Holocaust Kirsten Fermaglich 13. The Myth of Silence: Survivors Tell a Different Story Beth Cohen 14. The Myth of Silence: Post-war American Jews and the Holocaust Hasia Diner 15. 'A "high class lynching party"? The debate over the Nuremberg tribunal in the late 1940s and 1950s' Michael Bazyler and Paul Hoffman Silence Reconsidered: An Afterword Eric J. Sundquist