Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America, Beth B. Cohen. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007), 224 pp., cloth 44.95
Beth Cohen's well-researched volume is the latest work on a topic that has been debated in both the scholarly and popular literature since the end of World War II: the question of how well Holocaust survivors adapted to life after the war. Cohen's focus is on the one-third who came to Amer...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 134-136 |
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| Summary: | Beth Cohen's well-researched volume is the latest work on a topic that has been debated in both the scholarly and popular literature since the end of World War II: the question of how well Holocaust survivors adapted to life after the war. Cohen's focus is on the one-third who came to America., In the early postwar period, many articles emphasizing the successful adjustment of the immigrants appeared in the general media and in publications such as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society's Rescue. But there was an agenda here. The agencies that served the new arrivals wanted the doors to Jewish immigration to remain open, and they therefore portrayed the survivors as resilient, eager, and ready to start new lives. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn013 |