American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares - Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965

A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics

About the author

MARCIE COHEN FERRIS is the Associate Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (2005). MARK I. GREENBERG is Director of the Florida Studies Center and Special Collections Department at the University of South Florida and has published widely on southern Jewry. He is the author of University of South Florida: The First Fifty Years (2006). ELI N. EVANS was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Yale Law School. He is author of The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South; Judah P Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate; and The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner. He is president-emeritus of the Charles H. Revson Foundation and chairman of the advisory board of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Summary

A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Fermaglich
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2007
• EAN: 9781584655497
• ISBN: 978-1-58465-549-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Brandeis Series in American Je; Brandeis Series in American Je
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous