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"No Generation of Silence: Contrary to the prevailing narrative, enscribed in both historical scholarship and Jewish communal memory, the years after the end of World War II witnessed a broad and deep process of memorializing the victims of the Holocaust. Text by text, artifact by artifact, and political act by political act, American Jews used the public sphere to recall those who had perished so cruelly as well as to further the post-war liberal agenda. Scattered, grass-roots and spontaneous the Holocaust commemoration of these years, into the middle of the 1960s, spanned the broad spectrum of American Jewry who used memorial events and practices both for internal purposes and as a way to engage with the larger American public.
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