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Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America (Judaica and Hebraica)

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Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to The us and the lives they have got made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the US: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not all the time eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in The us; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom they felt most comfortable―most regularly other survivors.

In preparation, Helmreich spent more than six years traveling the US, listening to the personal stories of hundreds of survivors, and examining more than 15,000 pages of data in addition to new material from archives that have never before been to be had to create this remarkable, groundbreaking work. What emerges is a picture that is sharply different from the stereotypical image of survivors as people who find themselves chronically depressed, anxious, and fearful.

This intimate, enlightening work explores questions about prevailing over hardship and adversity: how people who have gone through such experiences pick up the threads of their lives; where they obtain the strength and spirit to go on; and, in any case, what lessdns the remainder of us can learn about overcoming tragedy.

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