TY - BOOK ID - 77871688 TI - America Jewish loss after the Holocaust PY - 2007 SN - 0814753388 0814752314 9780814752319 9780814753385 9780814752173 0814752179 PB - New York : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Jews KW - Arts and the Holocaust KW - Arts KW - Influence. KW - Identity. KW - Levitt, Laura, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871688 AB - Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up p ER -