"We are here"
Subtitle: new approaches to Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany
By: edited by Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780814333501
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Entangled histories and lost memories: Jewish survivors in occupied Germany, 1945-49 / Atina Grossmann; title: A folk monument to our destruction and heroism: Jewish historical commissions in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy / Laura Jockusch; title: Representing the experiences of children in the Holocaust: children's survivor testimonies published in Fun Letsten Hurbn, Munich, 1946-49 / Boaz Cohen; title: Living in Landsberg, dreaming of Deganiah: Jewish displaced youths and Zionism after the Holocaust / Avinoam J. Patt; title: Face to face: American Jews and Holocaust survivors, 1946-54 / Beth B. Cohen; title: Perceptions of Jewish displaced persons as criminals in early Postwar Germany: lingering stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophecies / Michael Berkowitz and Suzanne Brown-Fleming; title: The reshaping of Jewish communities and identities in Frankfurt and Zeilsheim in 1945 / Laura J. Hilton; title: The experience of the displaced persons in Bergen-Belsen: unique or typical case? / Hagit Lavsky; title: Jewish observance in Amalek's shadow: mourning, marriage, and birth rituals among displaced persons in Germany / Margarete Myers Feinstein; title: "We long for a home": songs and survival among Jewish displaced persons / Shirli Gilbert; title: Dangling roots? Yiddish language and culture in the German diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky.