{"product_id":"homes-of-the-past-a-lost-jewish-museum-hardback-9780253069986","title":"Homes of the Past; A Lost Jewish Museum (Hardback) 9780253069986","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHomes of the Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Lost Jewish Museum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey Shandler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253069986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e170 pages, 15 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.422 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jeffrey Shandler's impressive study makes it clear that, after the break of the Holocaust, there could and cannot be seamless connections with the Jewish museum system before 1945. The author calls the collection pieces the material correlates to the \"sheyres hapleyte\", the \"saved remain\" – a Yiddish name for the survivors of the Holocaust.\"—Julia Roos, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig, \u003ci\u003eH-NET \/ H-Soz-Kult\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomes of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they made a remarkable decision: they would create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended.\u003cbr\u003e With insight and clarity, Jeffrey Shandler draws upon the surviving archival sources to tell the story of the purpose, development, and ultimate fate of the Museum of the Homes of the Past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHomes of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Turn to Museums\u003cbr\u003e 2. Home on Two Continents\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Museum of the Homes of the Past\u003cbr\u003e 4. Afterlife of the Past\u003cbr\u003e 5. Homes of the Past Today\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525597557016,"sku":"9780253069986","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/homes-of-the-past-a-lost-jewish-museum-hardback-9780253069986","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}