Pilgrimages to the past: Jewish returns to eastern and central Europe
TitoloPilgrimages to the past: Jewish returns to eastern and central Europe
Autore
Call number940.5318/0340
Numero oggetto07057i
Luogo di pubblicazioneNew York, New York, United States
EditoreColumbia University Press.
Anno di pubblicazione
2009
Paginazionepp217-256
MaterialeArticle
SerieHolocaust Studies Series vol 26.
East European Monographs, No.DCCLVIII
East European Monographs, No.DCCLVIII
ISBN9780880336574
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust: essays and documents' pp217-256
Descrizione
Focuses on autobiographical narratives in which Holocaust survivors and their descendants reflect on the meaning of returns or visits to the former 'shtetls' of East Central Europe. Based on accounts by survivors, Bladek concludes that all of them had discovered the impossibility of reentering and repossessing places from the past