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The new book on the effects of the Holocaust by New York University Professor Hasia Diner.
NYU (US)—The horrors of the Holocaust have been woven into the very fabric of Jewish families and communities. That finding comes from New York University Professor Hasia Diner, who recently completed an exhaustive review of Jewish life in America over the nearly two decades following World War II.
Her work challenges the existing post-war narrative of the Holocaust that posits American Jews turned away from the genocide in Europe and instead focused on the comforts of suburbia and other benefits generated by the 1950s economic boom. Continue…
