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Author:   David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Eric J. Sundquist
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415616768

ISBN 10:   041561676
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   29 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction David Cesarani 1. There was no silence: an overview of post-war responses to the destruction of European Jewry David Cesarani 2. Acting the Part: Theatrical Interpretations of the Holocaust in the Displaced Persons Camps of Germany Margarete Feinstein 3. No Silence in Yiddish: Popular and scholarly writing about the Holocaust in the early postwar years Mark Smith 4. The Centre Documentation Juive Comptemporaine, Paris, 1945-1955 Laura Jockusch 5. The drowned and the saved: communal memory 1945-1960 David Roskies 6. ""We know very little in America"": David Boder and Un-Belated Testimony Alan Rosen 7. David P. Boder: Indexing a Holocaust Testimony Collection Rachel Deblinger 8. Shame and the ‘musselmanner’ in early literature of the camps Timothy Pytell 9. Authoritarianism and the Making of Post-Holocaust Personality Studies Michael Staub 10. If God Was Silent, Absent, Dead, or Nonexistent, What about Philosophy and theology? Some Aftereffects and Aftershocks of the Holocaust John Roth 11. Trial by Audience: Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice in Hollywood Films, 1944-1959 Lawrence Baron 12. ""This too is partly Hitler’s doing"": American Jewish debates over name-changing in the wake of the Holocaust Kirsten Fermaglich 13. The Myth of Silence: Survivors Tell a Different Story Beth Cohen 14. The Myth of Silence: Post-war American Jews and the Holocaust Hasia Diner 15. ‘A ""high class lynching party""? The debate over the Nuremberg tribunal in the late 1940s and 1950s’ Michael Bazyler and Paul Hoffman Silence Reconsidered: An Afterword Eric J. Sundquist"

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David Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written and edited over a dozen books, including Justice Delayed: How Britain Became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals (1992; 2d edition 2001), Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (1998), Eichmann: His life and crimes (2004), and Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal, and Britain's war against Jewish Terrorism, 1945-1948 (2009). For his work in establishing a Holocaust Memorial Day in Great Britain he was awarded an OBE in 2005 Eric J. Sundquist is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at John Hopkins University, USA. His publications include Kings Dream (2009), Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005) and To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993).

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