TY - BOOK ID - 78071213 TI - We Remember with Reverence and Love PY - 2009 SN - 0814785239 9780814785232 9780814719930 0814719937 9780814719947 0814719945 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Public opinion KW - Jews KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) KW - Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Holocaust, Nazi KW - Ḥurban (1939-1945) KW - Ḥurbn (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) KW - Nazi Holocaust KW - Nazi persecution of Jews KW - Shoʾah (1939-1945) KW - Genocide KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Kindertransports (Rescue operations) KW - Attitudes. KW - Public opinion, American. KW - Historiography. KW - Influence. KW - Nazi persecution KW - Persecutions KW - Atrocities KW - Jewish resistance KW - Public opinion. KW - American. KW - Jewry. KW - assumption. KW - debunks. KW - major. KW - postwar. KW - re-examination. KW - silence. KW - that. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071213 AB - Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis. In this compelling work, Hasia R. Diner shows the assumption of silence to be categorically false. Uncovering a rich and incredibly varied trove of remembrances—in song, literature, liturgy, public display, political activism, and hundreds of other forms—We Remember with Reverence and Love shows that publicly memorializing those who died in the Holocaust arose from a deep and powerful element of Jewish life in postwar America. Not only does she marshal enough evidence to dismantle the idea of American Jewish “forgetfulness,” she brings to life the moving and manifold ways that this widely diverse group paid tribute to the tragedy. Diner also offers a compelling new perspective on the 1960's and its potent legacy, by revealing how our typical understanding of the postwar years emerged from the cauldron of cultural divisions and campus battles a generation later. The student activists and “new Jews” of the 1960's who, in rebelling against the American Jewish world they had grown up in “a world of remarkable affluence and broadening cultural possibilities” created a flawed portrait of what their parents had, or rather, had not, done in the postwar years. This distorted legacy has been transformed by two generations of scholars, writers, rabbis, and Jewish community leaders into a taken-for-granted truth. ER -