Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

by Sheila E. Jelen

Book Overview

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"