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Three generations of Jewish women : Holocaust survivors, their daughters, and granddaughters

Title: Three generations of Jewish women : Holocaust survivors, their daughters, and granddaughters / Lea Ausch Alteras.
Author: Alteras, Lea Ausch.
Publication: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2002.

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Description

viii, 397 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Motivated by her Auschwitz-survivor mother's death to explore her world, psychologist Alteras (Hunter College, City College of New York) takes testimony from three generations of women and finds connecting themes in their life stories. She studies her mother's generation who grew up in Eastern Europe, her own cohorts who had immigrated to the US as youngsters, and their children who were born into an environ of heightened Jewish and feminist consciousness. The book concludes with reflections on shifts in, and survival of, Jewish identity. Includes photos of each generation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-385) and index.

Contents

The First Generation of Jewish Women: A Historical Perspective -- Testimonies of Our Mothers' Generation -- Photos and Poem -- The Second Generation of Jewish Women: A Historical Perspective -- Testimonies of the Second Generation of Women -- Photos -- The Third Generation: Our Daughters' Generation of Women -- Testimonies of the Third Generation of Women -- Photos -- Conclusion: Ambivalence and Change -- Epilogue: Future Thought on Jewish Survival.

ISBN

0761823123
9780761823124

LCCN

2002020287

OCLC

ocm49627681
49627681
SCSB-1261262

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library