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Author Rice, Monika, author.

Title "What! Still alive?!" : Jewish survivors in Poland and Israel remember homecoming / Monika Rice
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Modern Jewish history
Modern Jewish history.
Contents In search of postwar memory -- The returning survivors: historical context -- The Central Jewish Historical Commission and its project of documenting survivors' stories -- First encounters with the neighbors as represented in the Jewish Historical Institute collection -- Yad Vashem testimonies in the context of Israeli history -- Memories of the first encounters as represented in the Yad Vashem collection -- Comparative analysis of the data: memory on a curve -- Toward building a collective memory
Summary "What! Still Alive?!" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from 1944 to 1950. As many survivors found they were no longer welcome by their Polish neighbors, they chose to settle in the new state of Israel. Again, these surviving Jews left testimonies describing their postwar returns. In "What! StillAlive?!," Rice investigates the transformation of survivors' memories from the first account after their initial return to Poland and later accounts, recorded at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem between 1955 and 1970. Through close readings of these firsthand narratives, Rice traces the ways in which the passage of time and a changing geopolitical context influenced the survivors' memories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 9, 2018)
Subject Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma.
Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah.
SUBJECT Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah fast
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma fast
Subject Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Attitudes
Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Attitudes
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Internment camps
Liberty
Holocaust survivors -- Attitudes
Ethnic relations
Jews
SUBJECT Poland -- Ethnic relations
Subject Israel
Poland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017038211
ISBN 9780815654193
0815654197