About the Author

Avinoam J. Patt is the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he is also director of the George and Lottie Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization. He is author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2009). Michael Berkowitz is professor of modern Jewish history at University College London. He is author of The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality; The Jewish Self Image: American and British Perspectives, 1881-1939; Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933; and Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War. He is also editor or co-editor of three previous volumes, most recently Fighting Back: Jewish and Black Boxers in Britain, with Ruti Ungar.

Reviews

Finding Home and Homeland succeeds both in staking out a clear-cut and refreshingly new position in a highy contentious historiographical field, while doing so with tremendous restraint and in a dispassionate-and distinctly un-polemical-tone. It is an important, valuable, and highly readable book that will undoubtedy constitute a vital contribution to the historiography of the DPs, poatwar Zionism, Holocaust Studies, and the course of Jewish history in the latter half of the twentieth century.-- "H-net Reviews"

His comprehensive research-based on hundreds of archival sources found in Israel, Germany, and the United States and many other secondary sources in Hebrew, English, German, and Yiddish-exhibits both love and esteem for those Jewish youngsters who found their home and homeland in the new Jewish state."-- "Ada Schein"

Patt succeeds in providing a more nuanced analysis of why so many young survivors found Zionism so appealing and how their actions were vital to diplomatic decisions leading to the creation o the state of Israel. His book is a welcome addition to scholarship in this area and will be useful to students and researchers alike.-- "Holocaust and Genocide Studies"

This book is a valuable addition to the rich collection of scholarly works on the Holocaust survivors, usually referred to as the 'She'erit Hapletah' (the Remnant Survivors).-- "Hagit Lavsky"