This is home now : Kentucky's Holocaust survivors speak / [compiled and edited by] Arwen Donahue ; photographs by Rebecca Gayle Howell.
At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
Univ. Press of Kentucky,
©2009.
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| Series: | Kentucky remembered.
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| Summary: | At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural and social support. However, some survivors settled in rural areas throughout the country, including in Kentucky, where they encountered an entirely different set of circumstances. Although much scholarship has been devoted to Holocaust survivors living in urban contexts, little has been written a. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813173429 0813173426 9780813139098 0813139090 0813135214 9780813135212 1283233541 9781283233545 9786613233547 6613233544 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |