"What! Still Alive?!"

2017 book by Monika Rice "What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming "What! Still Alive?!".jpg Cover of the first edition Monika Rice United States English History Syracuse University Press 2017 Print 272 978-0815635390 "What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming is a 2017 book by historian Monika Rice that deals with the memories of Jewish Holocaust survivors of their first encounters with ethnic Poles after liberation from Nazi German rule. The testimonies were all found in archives at Yad Vashem and the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland. The Polish testimonies were collected between 1944 and 1950, while the Israeli ones were created significantly later (from 1955 to 1970). There are significant differences between these testimonies based on the context that they were made in; Rice hypothesizes that in Israel, survivors may have recounted events in such a way as to justify their emigration.Horwitz Gordon J 182173147 "What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming Monika Rice Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2019 33 1 121–122 10.1093/hgs/dcz011Krzyżanowski Łukasz Monika Rice, "What! Still Alive?!" Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały 2018 14 726–735 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=729780 Polish 1895-247X The book describes a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards survivors, according to Polish-American historian Anna Cichopek-Gajraj.Cichopek-Gajraj Anna Monika Rice. "What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2017. 253 pp. AJS Review 24 April 2019 43 1 230–232 10.1017/S0364009419000254 167027986 In her review of the book, published in The Polish Review, Irena Grudzińska-Gross noted that, as stated in the book, the reaction of disbelief was only found in one of the testimonies. She also wrote that in the testimonies used by Rice, the war overshadowed the postwar encounters, but Rice did a good job sorting them out.Grudzińska-Gross Irena Review of "What! Still Alive?!" Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming The Polish Review 2020 65 1 85–87 10.5406/polishreview.65.1.0085 10.5406/polishreview.65.1.0085 246602838 0032-2970 free Writing in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gordon J. Horwitz called the book "perceptive and closely argued" and a "carefully researched analytical study". He also praised it for dealing sensitively with the testimonies that comprise its source material. In AJS Review, Cichopek-Gajraj also praised the book, writing that it was "a uniquely readable, remarkably affecting, and truly original text that is a must read" for people interested in Polish-Jewish relations, and she called it "one of the best books on the subject in recent years". In the Slavic Review, Rachel Brenner wrote that the work is a "well-researched and interesting book" and "a serious, well-done study which makes an important contribution to the field of Holocaust studies".Brenner Rachel Feldhay 'What! Still Alive?!' Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming. By Monika Rice. Syracuse: Modern Jewish History. Syracuse University Press, 2017. xii, 254 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00, hard bound. $29.95, paper. Slavic Review 3 May 2019 78 1 236–237 10.1017/slr.2019.38 166548422 See also Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–1946 References Category:2017 non-fiction books Category:Aftermath of World War II in Poland Category:Personal accounts of the Holocaust Category:Syracuse University Press books Category:Anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944–1946 Category:History books about the Holocaust in Poland Category:Books about Jewish Polish history Category:Articles with quotation marks in the title