Elizabeth Anthony, "The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2021)
Most often our engagement with the Holocaust is a process of wrestling with the absence of presence and the presence of absence.\xa0This is right and\xa0important and necessary.\nBut Elizabeth Anthony's new book\xa0The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust\xa0(Wayne State UP, 2021)\xa0reminds us that the story of the Holocaust is also the story of return, of resurfacing, of presence itself.\xa0Anthony studies the return of Viennese Jews to Vienna\xa0after the end of the Second World War.\xa0She starts by reminding us that for some Jews, those who survived in hiding or by being married to non-Jews, to return was to become visible again. But for many Jews, this was a physical relocation, a conscious decision to return home, with all that meant.\xa0\xa0\nAnthony offers a careful interpretative framework for understanding the waves of returnees and how they experience a new Vienna.\xa0But Anthony has an eye for telling anecdotes and details and the book is packed with stories and details\xa0drawn from interviews, memoirs, diaries and letters.\xa0\xa0\nKelly McFall is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Newman University.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies