Jewish Destiny as the DPs See It: The Ideology of the Surviving Remnant

Samuel Gringauz

1947

Today, the Sherit Hapleita has an ideology of its own—this despite the fact that in its outlook on life, in its politics, and its culture, the group is no more unified and no less divided than other Jewish communities. In spite of all internal differences, certain convictions are held in common by the preponderant majority of the Sherit Hapleita…

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Samuel Gringauz

1900–1975

Although he was trained as a lawyer, Samuel Gringauz’s experiences in the Kovno ghetto, the Dachau concentration camp, and the Landsberg displaced persons camp led him to undertake a social-scientific analysis of these contexts and their inhabitants. While chairman of the Landsberg displaced persons camp committee and leader of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the American sector, he conducted several sociological and psychological studies of Jewish survivors. Gringauz, who firmly believed that Europe could no longer be home to Jews, immigrated to the United States in 1947.

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