From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History.
Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Wayne State University Press
2020.
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| In: | Anno: 2020 |
| Recensioni: | [Rezension von: Sinkoff, Nancy, 1959-, From left to right] (2021) (Fermaglich, Kirsten)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Historiography
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| Edizione parallela: | Erscheint auch als: 9780814350317 |
| Riepilogo: | Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz. Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Word about Personal and Place Names -- Introduction -- I. In New York City in the Interwar Years -- 1. American Immigrant Daughter -- In the Alcoves of Hunter College -- Starting Out in Yiddish in the 1930s -- Lost in Migration: Leibush Lehrer's Ambivalent Secularism -- II. In Poland, Refugee New York City, and Germany -- 2. An American in Vilna -- The Men and Women of the YIVO -- The Aspirantur -- Christian and Jewish Poles -- Days of Decision -- 3. The New York YIVO in Wartime -- Back in the United States -- Trouble on the YIVO's Home Front -- 4. In the American and British Zones of Occupied Postwar Germany -- The Offenbach Archival Depot -- In the British Zone -- III. Becoming an American -- 5. Insider Politics at the American Jewish Committee -- Seeing Red -- Intergroup Relations in Black, White, and Jewish -- First Cracks in Intergroup Relations -- 6. Whither Secularism? -- How High the Wall? -- The Personal Is Political -- 7. Representing Polish Jewry: The Golden Tradition -- Writing Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora -- Khurbn Forshung for the American Public -- Dubnow's Other Daughter -- 8. Defending Polish Jewry: The War Against the Jews -- The Centrality of Antisemitism to Hitler's Intentionalism -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 1 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg-and Arendt, Part 2 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 3 -- 9. Universalism and Particularism among the New York Intellectuals -- Arendt's Allure -- Dawidowicz's Authenticity -- IV. Eastern Europe in America -- 10. The Europeanness of the Jewish "Neoconservative Turn" -- Jewish Neoconservative Avant la Lettre -- The Problem of Violence and Black Power -- The Language and Literature of Power-and Antisemitism. |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-8143-4511-5 |