Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies explores how American Jewish Post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the Post-Holocaust decades.
In her analysis of a variety of "hybrid" text.
These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction of a Post-Holocaust American one.
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies explores how American Jewish Post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the Post-Holocaust decades