Saving our survivors : how American Jews learned about the Holocaust / Rachel Deblinger.
| Author/creator | Deblinger, Rachel author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xiv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | How American Jews learned about the Holocaust |
| Series | The modern Jewish experience Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.) ^A258137 |
| Contents | In a world still trembling -- Heartstrings and purse strings : Fundraising and the battle for Jewish survival -- Voicing survivor narratives : postwar American radio and refugee policy -- Translating postwar Europe : American Jewish aid workers as secondary witnesses -- Sending hope, securing peace : volunteerism and direct aid in the early Cold War -- Toward a longer history of American Holocaust memory. |
| Abstract | "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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Deblinger, Rachel Saving our survivors Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2025] 9780253072726 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780253072726 |
| LCCN | 2024058319 |
| ISBN | 9780253072696 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0253072697 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780253072702 paperback |
| ISBN | 0253072700 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000217324 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | D804.45.U55 D43 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |