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oapen-20.500.12657-317162021-11-04T14:12:29Z Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present Michlic, Joanna Beata History Jews Judaism Kibbutz Poland The Holocaust bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family unit; the transformation of gender roles under duress; youth’s wartime and early postwar experiences; postwar reconstruction of the Jewish family; rehabilitation of Jewish children and youth; and the role of Zionism in shaping the present and future of young survivors. Relying on newly available archival material and novel research in the areas of families, youth, rescue, resistance, gender, and memory, this volume will be an indispensable guide to current work on the familial and social history of the Holocaust. 2017-03-16 23:55 2019-11-26 16:35:45 2020-04-01T13:47:02Z 2020-04-01T13:47:02Z 2017 book 625676 OCN: 952470799 9781512600117 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31716 eng HBI Series on Jewish Women application/pdf n/a 625676.pdf Brandeis University Press 10.26530/oapen_625676 100117 10.26530/oapen_625676 b79358b0-6dd8-4564-8a0c-53b5138feb16 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781512600117 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Waltham, MA, USA 100117 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family unit; the transformation of gender roles under duress; youth’s wartime and early postwar experiences; postwar reconstruction of the Jewish family; rehabilitation of Jewish children and youth; and the role of Zionism in shaping the present and future of young survivors.
Relying on newly available archival material and novel research in the areas of families, youth, rescue, resistance, gender, and memory, this volume will be an indispensable guide to current work on the familial and social history of the Holocaust.
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