Eliyana R Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliyana R Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliyana R |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2746-4994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narratives of Return
This article explores how Holocaust survivors and refugees described the experience of homecoming after the war in the postwar memorial books dedicated to their destroyed communities in Poland. The narratives of return that they wrote, from their places of migration, describe the ambivalent emptiness they felt in encountering their hometowns after the genocide, their embodied surveys through the towns, and their efforts to gather information abou…
Expanding Holocaust Cartography
This article posits that maps are awkward and underutilized documents in Holocaust studies. Although maps serve many testimonial purposes, researchers have often viewed them as peripheral documents, especially when compared to written and spoken testimonies. By centering the maps of victims of the Treblinka death camp and the hand-drawn maps appearing in postwar memorial books, the authors draw attention to maps’ ambiguous standing as archival so…
Give me Łódź
This article explores the development of the Jewish community of Łódź, Poland alongside changes in the city as a whole. From a small town at the start of the 19th century, it became a major hub for textile factories, urban labor, and intercultural encounters by the end of the century. Jews experienced and contributed to the changes as workers, factory owners, and chroniclers. Julian Tuwim, ‘Łódź,’ Jarmark rymów (Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1991), 152, tra…
Translating Trauma
This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of online translations of post-Holocaust Polish Jewish memorial books. The memorial books, written primary in Hebrew and Yiddish in the decades after the war, each focus on Jewish life and death in a particular prewar Jewish community. Written originally by and for people from those communities, the books are now being translated and posted online by Jewish genealogists, and, most recently, by Pol…
Introduction
Legacy of Blood
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the SovietsElissa Bemporad Elissa Bemporad, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 252 pp., hardcover $74.00, electronic version available. Eliyana R Adler Eliyana R Adler Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Stud…
Introduction
Clothes Make the Man
Out of the Ghetto? Historiography on Jewish Women in Eastern Europe
Bildungs Romance
Bildungs Romance:East European Jews and the Desire for Education Eliyana R. Adler The genre of the bildungsroman is so widely recognized that my spell check program passed over it with no complaint. We are all familiar with the novels of growth, maturation, individuation, and education in its broadest sense that fit into this category of literature. Many autobiographies, especially those written in a literary style or with other gestures toward l…
Soviet Jews in World War II
A quick glance at the title of this impressive new edited volume can be deceiving. The juxtaposition of Soviet Jews and World War II immediately calls up images of mass shootings. This volume does not treat the Holocaust per se, however. Rather, it offers a selection of new and interdisciplinary works about Soviet Jews’ participation in the war effort as well as their responses to the unfolding genocide. As such, it both fills a lacuna and provid…
Hrubieszow at the Crossroads
In the fall of 1939, Jews across western Poland faced a momentous dilemma: whether to stay in their homes under Nazi occupation or to flee to the area controlled by the Soviets. The question was particularly acute for residents of Hrubieszów, mere kilometers from the new border at the Bug River. Testimonies and memoirs of Hrubieszower Jews illuminate the factors individuals and families weighed in making their decisions. They also highlight the i…
To the Tashkent Station
Women’s Education in the Pages of the Russian Jewish Press
Rediscovering schools for Jewish girls in Tsarist Russia
his summary of the state of education of Jewish girls in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, delivered by a European-born rabbi to a reporter from The New York Times in 2000, is fairly typical of the standard picture of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. There is an assumption either that girls received no education at all or that whatever education they did receive was so paltry as to be unworthy of attention. As stated in the popular anth…
Educational Options for Jewish Girls in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Translating Trauma
This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of online translations of post-Holocaust Polish Jewish memorial books. The memorial books, written primary in Hebrew and Yiddish in the decades after the war, each focus on Jewish life and death in a particular prewar Jewish community. Written originally by and for people from those communities, the books are now being translated and posted online by Jewish genealogists, and, most recently, by Pol…
Hrubieszow at the Crossroads
In the fall of 1939, Jews across western Poland faced a momentous dilemma: whether to stay in their homes under Nazi occupation or to flee to the area controlled by the Soviets. The question was particularly acute for residents of Hrubieszów, mere kilometers from the new border at the Bug River. Testimonies and memoirs of Hrubieszower Jews illuminate the factors individuals and families weighed in making their decisions. They also highlight the i…
Rediscovering schools for Jewish girls in Tsarist Russia
his summary of the state of education of Jewish girls in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, delivered by a European-born rabbi to a reporter from The New York Times in 2000, is fairly typical of the standard picture of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. There is an assumption either that girls received no education at all or that whatever education they did receive was so paltry as to be unworthy of attention. As stated in the popular anth…
Educational Options for Jewish Girls in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Rediscovering schools for Jewish girls in Tsarist Russia
his summary of the state of education of Jewish girls in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, delivered by a European-born rabbi to a reporter from The New York Times in 2000, is fairly typical of the standard picture of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. There is an assumption either that girls received no education at all or that whatever education they did receive was so paltry as to be unworthy of attention. As stated in the popular anth…
Women’s Education in the Pages of the Russian Jewish Press
To the Tashkent Station
Hrubieszow at the Crossroads
In the fall of 1939, Jews across western Poland faced a momentous dilemma: whether to stay in their homes under Nazi occupation or to flee to the area controlled by the Soviets. The question was particularly acute for residents of Hrubieszów, mere kilometers from the new border at the Bug River. Testimonies and memoirs of Hrubieszower Jews illuminate the factors individuals and families weighed in making their decisions. They also highlight the i…
Soviet Jews in World War II
A quick glance at the title of this impressive new edited volume can be deceiving. The juxtaposition of Soviet Jews and World War II immediately calls up images of mass shootings. This volume does not treat the Holocaust per se, however. Rather, it offers a selection of new and interdisciplinary works about Soviet Jews’ participation in the war effort as well as their responses to the unfolding genocide. As such, it both fills a lacuna and provid…
Bildungs Romance
Bildungs Romance:East European Jews and the Desire for Education Eliyana R. Adler The genre of the bildungsroman is so widely recognized that my spell check program passed over it with no complaint. We are all familiar with the novels of growth, maturation, individuation, and education in its broadest sense that fit into this category of literature. Many autobiographies, especially those written in a literary style or with other gestures toward l…
Out of the Ghetto? Historiography on Jewish Women in Eastern Europe
Introduction
Clothes Make the Man
Legacy of Blood
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the SovietsElissa Bemporad Elissa Bemporad, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 252 pp., hardcover $74.00, electronic version available. Eliyana R Adler Eliyana R Adler Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Stud…
Give me Łódź
This article explores the development of the Jewish community of Łódź, Poland alongside changes in the city as a whole. From a small town at the start of the 19th century, it became a major hub for textile factories, urban labor, and intercultural encounters by the end of the century. Jews experienced and contributed to the changes as workers, factory owners, and chroniclers. Julian Tuwim, ‘Łódź,’ Jarmark rymów (Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1991), 152, tra…
Translating Trauma
This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of online translations of post-Holocaust Polish Jewish memorial books. The memorial books, written primary in Hebrew and Yiddish in the decades after the war, each focus on Jewish life and death in a particular prewar Jewish community. Written originally by and for people from those communities, the books are now being translated and posted online by Jewish genealogists, and, most recently, by Pol…
Introduction
Narratives of Return
This article explores how Holocaust survivors and refugees described the experience of homecoming after the war in the postwar memorial books dedicated to their destroyed communities in Poland. The narratives of return that they wrote, from their places of migration, describe the ambivalent emptiness they felt in encountering their hometowns after the genocide, their embodied surveys through the towns, and their efforts to gather information abou…
Expanding Holocaust Cartography
This article posits that maps are awkward and underutilized documents in Holocaust studies. Although maps serve many testimonial purposes, researchers have often viewed them as peripheral documents, especially when compared to written and spoken testimonies. By centering the maps of victims of the Treblinka death camp and the hand-drawn maps appearing in postwar memorial books, the authors draw attention to maps’ ambiguous standing as archival so…
Judaism (10 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (5 works) · The Holocaust (5 works)