This is Home Now [electronic resource] : Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak /
Howell, Rebecca Gayle.
Donahue, Arwen,1969-
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2009.
At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural and social support. However, some survivors settled in rural areas throughout the country, including in Kentucky, where they encountered an entirely different set of circumstances. Although much scholarship has been devoted to Holocaust survivors living in urban contexts, little has been written a
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Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Photographs; Series Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introductino: Listening to Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors; A Note on Methodology; 1. Sylvia Farber Green; 2. Oscar Haber; 3. Robert Holczer; 4. Abe Jakubowicz; 5. Ann Klein; Photo insert; 6. Justine Lerner; 7. Alexander Rosenberg; 8. John Rosenberg; 9. Paul Schlisser; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural and social support. However, some survivors settled in rural areas throughout the country, including in Kentucky, where they encountered an entirely different set of circumstances. Although much scholarship has been devoted to Holocaust survivors living in urban contexts, little has been written a
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index.
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Holocaust survivors
Jews