Confronting History and Holocaust

By Jack N. Porter

Book Overview

This book is a collection of personal essays that confront both history and Holocaust. It divides into three parts: The first confront's Porter's role as a writer and outsider and covers in chronological order his evolutionfrom high school (seen through the hindsight of a class reunion) to the making of a sociologist at UW-Milwaukee and Northwestern to the death of his father Irving Porter; the second part deals with Jewish women in the resistance,"therapy" for survivors, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, neo-Nazis in the USA, and the affirmation of live after the Shoah. It concludes with 100 pages of all his writings from 1958-2014, his speeches, and his vitae, useful for scholars and teachers.""

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932270085
• ISBN13: 9780932270085
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Spencer Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"