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Book After Such Knowledge

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  • Author : Eva Hoffman
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release : 2011-08-02
  • ISBN : 1610391357
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book After Such Knowledge written by Eva Hoffman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities to its received memories? In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva Hoffman -- a child of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust with the help of neighbors, but whose entire families perished -- probes these questions through personal reflections, and through broader explorations of the historical, psychological, and moral implications of the second-generation experience. She examines the subterranean processes through which private memories of suffering are transmitted, and the more willful stratagems of collective memory. She traces the "second generation's" trajectory from childhood intimations of horror, through its struggles between allegiance and autonomy, and its complex transactions with children of perpetrators. As she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past to the newly problematic present, and urges us to transform potent family stories into a fully informed understanding of a forbidding history.

Book Persistent Legacy

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  • Author : Erin Heather McGlothlin
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1571139613
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Persistent Legacy written by Erin Heather McGlothlin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust.

Book The Survivor s Legacy

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  • Author : Michael Leonard Farkas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-01-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Survivor s Legacy written by Michael Leonard Farkas and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally and Lenny knew their sister's debilitating agoraphobia affected her marriage and caused its demise. When they had families of their own, their widowed mother's crippling nightmares prompted Lenny to move his own family into her duplex. In both incidents, they brushed off questions and instead offered support.But when a friend confided that a family member had paralyzing fear and another spoke of nightly terrors, they made a connection. Both were children of Holocaust survivors as were Sally, Lenny and their sister. "The Survivor's Legacy: How the Holocaust Shaped Future Generations" is a telling book addressing the long lasting affects of war, suffering, and survival. First-hand accounts and scientific studies reveal that survivors pass on the horrors they experienced. Next generation family suffer from PTSD, hoarding, agoraphobia, nightmares, and abuse. On the opposite spectrum, some are overly lenient or cook with lavish excess. None were unscathed. This is an important book not only for Jews, but anyone concerned about the political climate in countries throughout the world where people are persecuted. It is a book for anyone who has witnessed or experienced injustice, those who want change, and everyone who holds hope for future generations.

Book Justice Matters

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  • Author : Mona Sue Weissmark
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780195157574
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Justice Matters written by Mona Sue Weissmark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the psychology of hatred and ethnic resentments is passed on from generation to generation, focusing on how children of both Holocaust victims and Nazis were impacted by the experiences of their ancestors.

Book A Legacy of Hatred

Download or read book A Legacy of Hatred written by David A. Rausch and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces anti-Semitic attitudes since the beginning of the Christian era through the conflict in the Middle East today, concentrating on the horrifying events surrounding the Holocaust, its causes, and its effects. A fully documented, historical treatment of the facts, it goes even further - delving into the root issues of racial and religious prejudice and refusing to ignore the biblical and spiritual implications of this legacy of hatred and bigotry. The Holocaust becomes not just a tragic period for careful study, but also a compelling challenge for moral responsibility in an immoral world. --inside jacket flap.

Book Bitter Legacy

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  • Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1997-11-22
  • ISBN : 9780253333599
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Bitter Legacy written by Zvi Y. Gitelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how over a million Jewish civilians were murdered by the Nazis and their local collaborators in the Soviet Union. Topics include Soviet Jewry before the Holocaust; the Holocaust of Ukrainian Jews; Jewish refuges from Poland in the USSR, 1939-1946; Jewish warfare and the participation of Jews in combat in the Soviet Union; Jewish-Lithuanian relations during World War II. Among the documents included are Nazi directives, Nazi actions, eyewitness accounts, and accounts of collaboration and resistance, and rescue. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Holocaust and Human Behavior

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  • Author : Facing History and Ourselves
  • Publisher : Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
  • Release : 2017-03-24
  • ISBN : 9781940457185
  • Pages : 734 pages

Download or read book Holocaust and Human Behavior written by Facing History and Ourselves and published by Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today

Book A Deadly Legacy

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  • Author : Tim Grady
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-26
  • ISBN : 0300231237
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book A Deadly Legacy written by Tim Grady and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany’s endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died), as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at home, such as raising funds for the war effort and securing vital food supplies. However, Grady’s research goes much deeper: he shows that German Jews were never at the periphery of Germany’s warfare, but were in fact heavily involved. The author finds that many German Jews were committed to the same brutal and destructive war that other Germans endorsed, and he discusses how the conflict was in many ways lived by both groups alike. What none could have foreseen was the dangerous legacy they created together, a legacy that enabled Hitler’s rise to power and planted the seeds of the Holocaust to come.

Book Eva

    Eva

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  • Author : Meyer Levin
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2020-01-30
  • ISBN : 1839742194
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Eva written by Meyer Levin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust, first published in 1959, is a fictionalized account of Ida Loew, a young Jewish girl from Poland who survived the Jewish pogroms of the Nazis and the Auschwitz camp. The book opens with the girl at age 16 leaving her home in southeastern Poland and posing as a gentile from the Ukraine named Katya. The story follows Eva as she works as a maid in the home of a prominent Austrian family in Linz (the husband is an SS officer), and then as an office worker in a German munitions factory. When she is eventually discovered to be a Jew, she is sent to Auschwitz. After the evacuation of the camp she manages to escape, finding refuge with a Polish family. At the end of the novel she is trying to find her family and home, difficult because so many Jewish communities in Eastern Europe had been destroyed. In real life, Ida Loew made her way to Israel after the war where she settled in Tel Aviv.

Book The Holocaust Averted

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  • Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-03
  • ISBN : 0813572401
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Holocaust Averted written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Holocaust Averted, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today’s American Jews could have been harder than it actually was.

Book The Legacy of the Holocaust

Download or read book The Legacy of the Holocaust written by Jason Skog and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses photographs and eyewitness accounts to examine the lingering fallout from the Holocaust.

Book Never to Forget

Download or read book Never to Forget written by Milton Meltzer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1991-09-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean to us today? We can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible? We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible. One. Two. Three. Often more. Here are the stories of thode people, recorded in letters and diaries, and in the memories of those who survived. Seen through their eyes, the horror becomes real. We cannot deny it--and we can never forget. ‘Based on diaries, letters, songs, and history books, a moving account of Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany before and during World War II.’ —Best Books for Young Adults Committee (ALA). ‘A noted historian writes on a subject ignored or glossed over in most texts. . . . Now that youngsters are acquainted with the horrors of slavery, they are more prepared to consider the questions the Holocaust raises for us today.’ —Language Arts. ‘[An] extraordinarily fine and moving book.’ —NYT. Notable Children's Books of 1976 (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970–1983 (ALA) 1976 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Best Books of 1976 (SLJ) Outstanding Children's Books of 1976 (NYT) Notable 1976 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) 1977 Jane Addams Award Nominee, 1977 National Book Award for Children's Literature IBBY International Year of the Child Special Hans Christian Andersen Honors List Children's Books of 1976 (Library of Congress) 1976 Sidney Taylor Book Award (Association of Jewish Libraries)

Book By the Grace of the Game

Download or read book By the Grace of the Game written by Dan Grunfeld and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-generational family epic detailing history's only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who had discovered and secretly honed his basketball talent on the outdoor courts of New York City. That young man was Ernie Grunfeld, who would go on to win an Olympic gold medal and reach previously unimaginable heights as an NBA player and executive. In By the Grace of the Game, Dan Grunfeld, once a basketball standout himself at Stanford University, shares the remarkable story of his family, a delicately interwoven narrative that doesn't lack in heartbreak yet remains as deeply nourishing as his grandmother's Hungarian cooking, so lovingly described. The true improbability of the saga lies in the discovery of a game that unknowingly held the power to heal wounds, build bridges, and tie together a fractured Jewish family. If the magnitude of an American dream is measured by the intensity of the nightmare that came before and the heights of the triumph achieved after, then By the Grace of the Game recounts an American dream story of unprecedented scale. From the grips of the Nazis to the top of the Olympic podium, from the cheap seats to center stage at Madison Square Garden, from yellow stars to silver spoons, this complex tale traverses the spectrum of the human experience to detail how perseverance, love, and legacy can survive through generations, carried on the shoulders of a simple and beautiful game.

Book Approaches to Auschwitz

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard L. Rubenstein
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664223533
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Approaches to Auschwitz written by Richard L. Rubenstein and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust's historical roots, its shattering impact on human civilization, and its decisive importance in determining the fate of the world. This revised edition takes into account developments in Holocaust studies since the first edition was published.

Book Contesting Histories

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  • Author : Michael Joseph Schuldiner
  • Publisher : Modern Jewish History
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780896726987
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Contesting Histories written by Michael Joseph Schuldiner and published by Modern Jewish History. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of Holocaust understanding (and misunderstanding) in German- and Jewish-American communities. Focusing on both past and recent debates in academia, Schuldiner provides expansive historical context for understanding the Holocaust's reception and place in American historiography"--Provided by publisher.

Book History and Memory  Lessons from the Holocaust

Download or read book History and Memory Lessons from the Holocaust written by Saul Friedländer and published by Graduate Institute Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ePaper, History and Memory: lessons from the Holocaust, presents the original text of the Leçon inaugurale delivered by Professor Saul Friedländer on 23 September 2014 at the Maison de la Paix, which marked the opening of the academic year of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The lecture highlights an original analysis of the evolution of German memory since the end of World War II and its consequences on the writing of history. Generations of historians have been particularly marked in a differentiated manner, depending on their personal proximity to the war, but also on collective representations conveyed by film and television in a globalised world. Saul Friedländer is Emeritus Professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his book The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. In 1963, he received his PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where he taught until 1988.

Book Legacy of Life

Download or read book Legacy of Life written by Israel Joe Sachs and published by MavenMark Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy of Life is a straightforward and eloquent narrative of author Joe Sachs' experiences before, during and immediately after World War II. This compelling memoir is narrated by a Holocaust survivor who experienced the war as a young man, brutally separated from his parents, family and loved ones.