Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities

Published by Berghahn Books 2011

Holocaust Survivors

Resettlement, Memories, Identities

Edited by: Dalia Ofer , Françoise S. Ouzan and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857452481

Overview
Contents

About this book

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection explores the survivors’ return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of perspectives, disciplines, and communities.

Author / Editor information

Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies (Emeritus) at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, the University of Maryland, and Stockton College. She is the author and editor of seven books and numerous articles on the daily life in Eastern European ghettos, rescue during the Holocaust, immigration to Palestine and Israel, and the memory of the Holocaust in Israel. She received the Ben Zvi Award for Derech Bayam: Aliyah Bet Bitkufat Hashoah (Yad Ben Zvi 1988) and the Jewish Book Award for Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel (Oxford University Press 1992). Her edited volume (with Lenore J. Weitzman) Women in the Holocaust (Yale University Press 1998) was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award 2000. Recently, she edited (with Paula Hyman) the online Historical Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women Archives 2007).

Françoise S. Ouzan received a PhD in History from the Sorbonne; she was an Associate Professor at the University of Rheims prior to her current positions as Senior Researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University, Associate Researcher at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ/CNRS), and Lecturer at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. Her major publications on displaced persons, anti-Semitism, and American Jewry include: Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas (Complexe 1995); Histoire des Américains juifs (André Versaille 2008); De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (edited with Dan Michman, CNRS éditions 2008); and a historical novel, Demain, nous partons (Bibliophane 2007). She participated in the Dictionnaire de la Shoah (Larousse 2009) and in the documentary La vie après la Shoah (The Shoah's Aftermath) by F. Gillery (2009).

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is chair of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry, Director of the Institute for Religious Zionism and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to the Holocaust, gender, memory, the State of Israel, and commemoration. Among her books are Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell 1998) and Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Collective Israeli Memory (Wisconsin University Press 2010).

Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies (Emeritus) at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, the University of Maryland, and Stockton College. She is the author and editor of seven books and numerous articles on the daily life in Eastern European ghettos, rescue during the Holocaust, immigration to Palestine and Israel, and the memory of the Holocaust in Israel. She received the Ben Zvi Award for Derech Bayam: Aliyah Bet Bitkufat Hashoah (Yad Ben Zvi 1988) and the Jewish Book Award for Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel (Oxford University Press 1992). Her edited volume (with Lenore J. Weitzman) Women in the Holocaust (Yale University Press 1998) was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award 2000. Recently, she edited (with Paula Hyman) the online Historical Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women Archives 2007).

Reviews

“This is a well-conceived volume that addresses a significant problem in the history of the Jews in the twentieth century - how survivors of the Holocaust resettled in many parts of the world, rebuilt (or failed to rebuild) their personal lives, and contributed (or did not contribute) to the development of Jewish communities and cultures in their new countries of residence. It is unique in both its interdisciplinary character and geographical scope.” · David Engel, New York University

“…an important contribution to the evolving field of research on Jewish life in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Almost every chapter introduces new research on unexamined areas of postwar Jewish history… By framing the study in a broad comparative manner, the book is one of the first of its kind and will make for essential reading in the field.” · Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. Holocaust Survivors in their Countries of Resettlement: Time, Space, and Identities Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. She’erit Hapletah—The Surviving Remnant: An Overview Zeev Mankowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter 2. The Identity of Women in the She’erit Hapletah: Personal and Gendered Identity as Determinants in Rehabilitation, Immigration, and Resettlement Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Chapter 3. Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Some Vignettes of Jewish Children’s Lives in Early Postwar Poland Joanna B. Michlic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 4. Issues in Religious and Educational Reform in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe after World War II David Weinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 5. The Post-Liberation French Administration and the Jews Jean-Marc Dreyfus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter 6. Mending the Body, Mending the Soul: Members of Youth Aliyah Take a Look at Themselves and at Others Dalia Ofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 7. Holocaust Survivors on Kibbutzim: Resettling Unsettled Memories Micha Balf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter 8. Holocaust Survivors in Israel: Time for an Initial Taking of Stock Hanna Yablonka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter 9. Rooting the Rootless: The Absorption of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Rural Settlements Ada Schein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 10. New Roots for the Uprooted: Holocaust Survivors as Farmers in America Françoise S. Ouzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter 11. Attitudes of the Jewish Community in Buenos Aires towards Holocaust Survivors, 1945–49 Leonardo Senkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Chapter 12. Why We Chose Australia Sharon Kangisser Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Chapter 13. Jewish Shoah Survivors: Neediness Assessment and Resource Allocation Sergio DellaPergola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 356
Keywords: Genocide History; Jewish Studies; Memory Studies

eBook

Published: December 1, 2011
ISBN: 9780857452481