• Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955" (U Manitoba Press, 2015)

  • Jul 31 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955" (U Manitoba Press, 2015)

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  • In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the established Jewish community and resettlement agents alike. Adara Goldberg's Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955 (U Manitoba Press, 2015) highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them. The book explores the relationships between the survivors, Jewish social service organizations, and local Jewish communities; it considers how those relationships--strained by disparities in experience, language, culture, and worldview--both facilitated and impeded the ability of survivors to adapt to a new country. Researched in basement archives and as well as at Holocaust survivors' kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide--not through the lens of lawmakers, but from the perspective of "new Canadians" themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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