American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

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ID19976285
AuthorsLaura Levitt (corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-03-17
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAmerican Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9780814753385.001.0001
OpenAlexW2338749437
ISBN9780814753385
Open LibraryOL37384350M
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up possibilities for engaging these more personal and everyday legacies. Weaving in discussions of her own family stories and writing in a manner that is both deeply personal and erudite, Levitt shows what happens when public and private losses are seen next to each other, and what happens when difficult works of art or commemoration, such as museum exhibits or films, are seen alongside ordinary family stories about more intimate losses. In so doing she illuminates how through these “ordinary stories” we may create an alternative model for confronting Holocaust memory in Jewish culture

Archaeology · Art · Judaism · Political science · The Holocaust · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts · Identity · Influence · Jews · united states

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