<p>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 passio
American Jewish loss after the Holocaust
โ Scribed by Laura Levitt
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 311
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
Preface: Unraveling, a Personal Story (page xiii)
Introduction: Indirection and Ordinary Jews (page 1)
1 Looking Out from under a Long Shadow (page 13)
2 Postmarked Pictures (page 38)
3 Secret Stashes (page 85)
4 Mary, Irena, and Me: Keepers of Accounts (page 147)
Conclusion: Other Ghosts, Other Encounters, Other Communities (page 191)
Notes (page 209)
Bibliography (page 265)
Index (page 273)
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