This is Home Now (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Utgivningsdatum
2022-01-18
Förlag
The University Press of Kentucky
Dimensioner
226 x 150 x 20 mm
Vikt
409 g
ISBN
9780813182384

This is Home Now

Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak

av Arwen Donahue, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Joan Ringelheim, Douglas A Boyd, James C Klotter
Häftad,  Engelska, 2022-01-18
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At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural and social support. However, some survivors settled in rural areas throughout the country, including in Kentucky, where they encountered an entirely different set of circumstances. Although much scholarship has been devoted to Holocaust survivors living in urban contexts, little has been written about them in the context of their experiences in rural America. Using excerpts from oral history interviews and documentary portrait photography, author Arwen Donahue and photographer Rebecca Gayle Howell tell the fascinating stories of nine of these survivors in a unique work of history and contemporary art. The book focuses on the survivors' lives after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps, illuminating their reasons for settling in Kentucky, their initial reactions to American culture, and their reflections on integrating into rural American life.
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Arwen Donahue, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Joan Ringelheim, Douglas A Boyd, James C Klotter

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Arwen Donahue has served as program coordinator in the Department of Oral History at the United States Holocaust Museum and managed its Post-Holocaust Interview Project. Rebecca Gayle Howell is a writer and documentary photographer. Currently, she is on the creative writing faculty at Morehead State University. Douglas A. Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, is a coeditor of Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky. James C. Klotter is State Historian and professor of history at Georgetown College. He is the author of several books, including, with Lowell H. Harrison, A New History of Kentucky.

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