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This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives of a generation of pre-WWI urban Jews in America with immigrant parents. Her life story reflects much of the development of American Jewry during the middle of the 20th century: the Great Depression, the Second World War, the development of Zionism, the response to the new State of Israel, and the development of Jewish suburbia. We follow Bernice's school years during the Depression, her connection with the Bronx Y, her college studies, her stint in the Women's Land Army, study trip to Israel in 1949, and marriage to Arthur Schwartz, a young army veteran and social work student from Nyack, NY. After the couple's odyssey through several East Coast Jewish communities, they and their sons settled in Teaneck, New Jersey. We follow Bernice's response to her oldest son immigrating to Israel, and the couple's move to Riverdale, NY and life there during their "Golden Years" in the 21st century

Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was one of two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881-1914). In many respects, her story was representative of an entire generation of young women who came to America during those years

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects. While the first three parts of the book focus on "text," the broad nature of Polish Jewish history surrounding the Holocaust, the last section focuses on subtext, the personal and professional experiences of scholars who have devoted years to researching and writing about Polish Jewry. The beginning sections present a variety of case studies on wartime and postwar Polish Jews, drawing on new research and local history. The final part is a reflection on family memory, where scholars discuss their connections to Holocaust history and its impact on their current lives and research. Viewed together, the combination sheds light on both history and historians: the challenges of dealing with the history of an unparalleled cataclysm, and the personal questions and dilemmas that its study raises for many of the historians engaged in it. Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory is a unique resource that will appeal to students and scholars studying the Second World War, Jewish and Polish history, and family history.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Aftermath: Memory, Postmemory, and Postmemorial Work After the Holocaust -- PART I: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of Postmemorial Work -- 2 Searching, Searching, Searching… Are There Any Relatives in the Room? -- 3 Then Came Hitler: A Lifetime of Choices on My Path of Postmemorial Work -- 4 Reflections on Postmemory - With Some Notes from Ireland and Greece -- 5 Traumatic Childhood and Growing Up in the Shadow of Trauma: When Post-Trauma Meets Postmemory: The Story of David, a Holocaust Survivor -- 6 From Stone Tomb to Flourishing Vineyard: Moving from Silent Testimony to Living Creativity in "Creating Memory", a Bibliotherapy Initiative for Third Generation Holocaust Survivors -- 7 Never Forget - The Net Will Remember: Connective Memory as a Form of Postmemory in the Age of Digital Platforms -- PART II: Postmemorial work in Literature and Art -- 8 Letting the Monster In? Illustrating the Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Children's Picture Books -- 9 "Where's the Little Girl? What Little Girl? Was There Ever a Little Girl?": From Narrative Memory to Emotional Postmemory in Nava Semel's Book And the Rat Laughed -- 10 The Presence of Absence -- Postmemory in My Life -- 11 I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors: Second Generation Postmemory in Animated Documentary -- 12 "If It's ME Reading the Signs": Carl Jung's Synchronicity and the A-Causal in Holocaust Postmemory at the Movies -- 13 Writing the Erasure -- Index.

The book is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author's path to making that choice, and describes and analyses her life after her immigration and at various crossroads of her life.