Confronting History and Holocaust

This book is a collection of personal essays that confront both history and Holocaust. It divides into three parts: The first confront's Porter's role as a writer and outsider and covers in chronological order his evolution from high school (seen through the hindsight of a class reunion) to the making of a sociologist at UW-Milwaukee and Northwestern to the death of his father Irving Porter; the second part deals with Jewish women in the resistance,"therapy" for survivors, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, neo-Nazis in the USA, and the affirmation of live after the Shoah. It concludes with 100 pages of all his writings from 1958-2014, his speeches, and his vitae, useful for scholars and teachers."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Spencer Press
Published: 11/10/2014
ISBN: 9780932270085
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d