About the Author
Rachel Deblinger is a Doctoral Candidate in the History department at UCLA. She is currently writing her
dissertation,
"‘In a world still trembling’: American Jewish
philanthropy and the shaping of Holocaust survivor narratives in postwar
America (1945-1953)," which explores how American Jews came to know
stories about Holocaust survivors in the early postwar period through the
efforts of American Jewish communal organizations to aid survivors in Europe. Rachel will file her dissertation and complete her degree in June 2014.
dissertation,
"‘In a world still trembling’: American Jewish
philanthropy and the shaping of Holocaust survivor narratives in postwar
America (1945-1953)," which explores how American Jews came to know
stories about Holocaust survivors in the early postwar period through the
efforts of American Jewish communal organizations to aid survivors in Europe. Rachel will file her dissertation and complete her degree in June 2014.
Her essay, “David
P. Boder: Holocaust Memory in Displaced Persons Camps” appears in After the Holocaust: challenging the myth of
silence, edited by David Cesarani, and Eric J. Sundquist (London:
Routledge, 2012).
Contact Rachel at rdeblinger@ucla.edu or @racheldeblinger
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