Postwar Jewish displacement and rebirth, 1945-1967 / / edited by Françoise S. Ouzan and Manfred Gerstenfeld.

• Superior document: Jewish Identities in a Changing World, Volume 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Ouzan, Françoise,; Gerstenfeld, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish identities in a changing world ; Volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of o...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction—Diverging Groups of Jewish Displaced Persons / Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan
• Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II / Sergio Della Pergola
• The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 / Jacques Amar
• Health Care Services for Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity / Schein Schein
• Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia and Poland / Kateřina Čapková
• The Postwar Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) / Ján Lániček
• Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors / Izio Rosenman
• American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) / Françoise S. Ouzan
• A Forgotten Postwar Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 / David Weinberg
• The Postwar Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands / Manfred Gerstenfeld
• Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 / Ewa Węgrzyn
• Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations / Shmuel Trigano
• The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems / Yigal Bin-Nun
• Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950's / Rafi Mann
• Index.