American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007), xxxvi + 283 pp., cloth 40.00
In American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, Laura Levitt likens herself to the Odyssey's Penelope, “simply appreciating the unfinished character of ordinary life, weaving and unweaving … both putting together and taking apart … beloved family stories (p. xvi).” Levitt describes such actions as...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 167-170 |
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| Summary: | In American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, Laura Levitt likens herself to the Odyssey's Penelope, “simply appreciating the unfinished character of ordinary life, weaving and unweaving … both putting together and taking apart … beloved family stories (p. xvi).” Levitt describes such actions as an American Jewish response to the Holocaust in that they enable American Jews to see a connection between their own stories and Holocaust experiences., Through analyses of her family's personal history, including its immigration to the United States as part of “the vast migration of Eastern European Jews at the beginning of the twentieth century,” Levitt suggests that we “begin to imagine other Jewish futures after the Holocaust” (p. xvii). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr008 |