Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

(Part of the Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series)

by Sheila E. Jelen

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An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:081434318X

ISBN13:9780814343180

Release Date:March 2020

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:88 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

(Part of the Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series)

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