Holocaust survivors

שורדי השואה במלחמת העצמאות: השפעתה של השואה על מקומם בזיכרון הקולקטיבי

This dissertation seeks to redefine post-Holocaust survivor testimony through both literary and archival sources. The project explores a variety of genres and linguistic traditions including: Modern Hebrew poetry, French memoir writing, and video-testimony. The writers or speake…

This study explored how Jewish Holocaust survivors had coped with various stress situations in their lives by identifying and articulating what were facilitative coping tactics. The goal of the study was to understand their lifelong coping process and to contribute to the field …

Bakhtin theorizes that literary allusions create a heteroglossic text, a text that is enlivened through the dialogic interaction of the writer and the text quoted. My study of autobiographies written by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust asserts that certain works engage in such …

This dissertation explores the poetics of loss in the autobiographical writing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Born in 1928, Wiesel spent his early childhood in the shtetl of Sighet, situated in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. In 1944…

This study analyzes the work of Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers founded by Holocaust survivors in Europe in the years 1943-1953. It considers the cases of France, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Italy in comparative perspective. As a grassroots initiative t…