- Summary
- "In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the established Jewish community and resettlement agents alike. Adara Goldberg's Holocaust Survivors in Canada highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them. The book explores the relationships between the survivors, Jewish social service organizations, and local Jewish communities; it considers how those relationships--strained by disparities in experience, language, culture, and worldview--both facilitated and impeded the ability of survivors to adapt to a new country. Researched in basement archives and as well as at Holocaust survivors' kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide--not through the lens of lawmakers, but from the perspective of "new Canadians" themselves."-- Provided by publishers.
- Series
- Studies in immigration and culture ; 14
Studies in immigration and culture ; 14.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Goldberg, Adara, author.
- Published
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2015]
©2015
- Locale
- Canada
Kanada
- Contents
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A Door, Slightly Ajar
"Ordinary Survivors"
The War Orphans Project
"I Remain its Reluctant Child"
Keeping the Faith
Moving Forward: Survivor Shuls
Abandoning Tradition: Atheism and Converts
The Final Movement: Israeli Transmigrants and Other "Late Arrivals"
Mothers and Misters: Parenting, Work, and Gender.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.
A Door, Slightly Ajar -- "Ordinary Survivors" -- The War Orphans Project -- "I Remain its Reluctant Child" -- Keeping the Faith -- Moving Forward: Survivor Shuls -- Abandoning Tradition: Atheism and Converts -- The Final Movement: Israeli Transmigrants and Other "Late Arrivals" -- Mothers and Misters: Parenting, Work, and Gender.
Text in English.
