Rewriting History: Holocaust Survivors in the Jim Crow South and Civil Rights Era, 1945-Present
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Herzog, Hannah
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of American Studies
- Abstract
- Although there is a large body of research on the Holocaust and World War II, the impact of the Nazi regime on southern Jewish life has been deeply understudied. This thesis will explore how Holocaust survivors living in Birmingham, Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia; and Charleston, South Carolina, negotiated the racial landscape of the American South between the late 1940s and 1960s. It will examine how survivors living in these three southern states experienced white nationalism and performed and received their ethnic identity in this racially divisive time in the South. This paper will interpret how survivors’ experiences with politics, gender, anti-Semitism, racism, and racial violence in the South converged with their traumas and memories of the Holocaust. Drawing from ethnographic research, archival materials, and theoretical work in folklore, Holocaust studies, and southern studies, this thesis adds to our understanding of the diversity of the South that existed in the mid-twentieth century.
- Date of publication
- May 2018
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- Price, Richard
- Berlinger, Gabrielle
- Ferris, Marcie Cohen
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2018
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