Out of the Ashes: The Impact of American Jews on Post-Holocaust European Jewry

by Yehuda Bauer

Out of the Ashes is a unique account of the contribution of American Jews to the continued survival of the remnant of European Jewry - the She'erit Hapletah - in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. As the Second World War drew to a close and the full extent of the Holocaust was revealed, the immediate American Jewish reaction of shocked silence and disbelief was soon transformed into pragmatic action: Jewish agencies throughout the US were mobilized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080365043
• ISBN13: 9780080365046
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 319 Pages