We Remember with Reverence and Love ：American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 ( Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History )

Publication subTitle ：American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962

Publication series ：Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Author： Diner Hasia

Publisher： NYU Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9780814785232

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814721223

Subject： K152 World War II (1939 - 1945)

Keyword：美洲史,现代史（1917年~）,历史、地理,宗教史、宗教地理,犹太教（希伯来教）,社会学

Language： ENG

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Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesRecipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural HistoryIt has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis. In this compelling work, Hasia R. Diner shows the assumption of silence to be categorically false. Uncovering a rich and incredibly varied trove of remembrances-in song, literature, liturgy, public display, political activism, and hundreds of other forms-We Remember with Reverence and Love shows that publicly memorializing those who died in the Holocaust arose from a deep and powerful element of Jewish life in postwar America. Not only does she marshal enough evidence to dismantle the idea of American Jewish "e;forgetfulness,"e; she brings to life the moving and manifold ways that this widely diverse group paid tribute to the tragedy.Diner also offers a compelling new perspective on the 1960s and its potent legacy, by revealing how our typical understanding of the postwar years emerged from the cauldron of cultural divisions and campus battles a generation later. The student activists and "e;new Jews"e; of the 1960s who, in rebelling against the American Jewish world they had grown up in "e;a world of remarkable affluence and broadening cultural possibilities"e; created a flawed portrait of what their parents h