Holocast Survivors

Research has been considerable on various aspects of life for Holocaust survivors as they settled into society in Israel and the US, but little has been written about survivors in Europe or South America, according to the preface. This collection of 13 papers arising from an August 2010 workshop corrects that neglect with discussion of children's lives in early postwar Poland, post-liberation French administration and the Jews, religious and educational reform in Western Europe, attitudes in Buenos Aires, and reasons immigrants choose Australia, among other topics (including life in Israel and the US). The three editors are affiliated as follows: Dalia Ofer (emeritus, Hebrew U., Jerusalem), Francoise S. Ouzan (Tel Aviv U. and the French Research Center in Jerusalem), and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (Bar-Ilan U. in Ramat Gan, Israel). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies (Emeritus) at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, the University of Maryland, and Stockton College. She is the author and editor of seven books and numerous articles on the daily life in Eastern European ghettos, rescue during the Holocaust, immigration to Palestine and Israel, and the memory of the Holocaust in Israel. She received the Ben Zvi Award for Derech Bayam: Aliyah Bet Bitkufat Hashoah (Yad Ben Zvi 1988) and the Jewish Book Award for Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel (Oxford University Press 1992). Her edited volume (with Lenore J. Weitzman) Women in the Holocaust (Yale University Press 1998) was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award 2000. Recently, she edited (with Paula Hyman) the online Historical Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women Archives 2007).

Francoise S. Ouzan received a Ph.D. in History from the Sorbonne University in Paris; she was an Associate Professor at the University of Rheims prior to her current positions as a Senior Researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel-Aviv University and an Associate Researcher at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ/CNRS) as well as a lecturer at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. Her major publications on Displaced Persons, anti-Semitism and American Jewry include Ces Juifs dont l1Amerique ne voulait pas (Complexe 1995), Histoire des Americains juifs (Andre Versaille 2008), De la memoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (edited with Dan Michman, CNRS editions 2008) and a historical novel, Demain, nous partons (Bibliophane 2007). She participated in the Dictionnaire de la Shoah (Larousse 2009) and in the documentary La vie apres la Shoah (The Shoah's Aftermath) by F. Gillery 2009).

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is chair of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry, Director of the Institute for Religious Zionism and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to the Holocaust, gender, memory, the State of Israel, and commemoration. Among her books are Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell 1998) and Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Collective Israeli Memory (Wisconsin University Press 2010).