Saving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust – Rachel Deblinger
Royce Hall, 314 314 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los AngelesDrawing on previously unexamined archives and postwar cultural materials, Saving Our Survivors explores how American Jews constructed meaning out of devastation—and how humanitarian aid became intertwined with public memory. The book uncovers how American Jewish communities first came to learn about and respond to the Holocaust through communal campaigns, radio broadcasts, speeches, short films, and urgent calls to action. Rachel Deblinger highlights the messy, diffuse, and contested nature of memory construction in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and raises larger questions about how historical tragedies are narrated in moments of crisis. Rachel Deblinger is the author of Saving Our...