The List

The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783034344395
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783034344708
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This is a book about an online community of the Second Generation (2g), children
of Holocaust survivors. Created in 1995, " e List" was the brainchild of Paul Foldes,
a 2g electrical engineer and consumer attorney turned businessman. Knowing that
online communities were an opportunity to reach beyond local meetings, he founded
e List even before the web existed.
Created when internet communication was just beginning for most people, it was
the rst to break local and national barriers to become a truly international, Englishspeaking,
2g framework. Based on a free internet platform, with moderators working
on a volunteer basis, it required no funding. e "Second Generation" had nally
come into its own. e book tells the story of the List and its members over a quarter
of a century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright Information
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface: Generations of the Holocaust: Invisible to Visible Identity and Community (Dr. Eva Fogelman)
• Introduction (Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz)
• From the Ashes to a Flame (Marilyn Boehm)
• The Outsider on the Inside (Dr. Paula David)
• The Lie (Patrice Flesch)
• The List Creator’s Story (Paul Foldes)
• How the List Transformed My Life (Martin Herskovitz)
• You’ve Got 2G Mail (Clara Jacob)
• My Journey – Discovery, Connection, and Community (Gail Ellen Rubinstein Lipton)
• My 2G Life and My Virtual Community (Dr. Betty Unger Needleman)
• My Life in Lists (Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz)
• Taaseh Lach Chavurah – Create Your Own ’Hood (Jeanette Friedman Sieradski)
• You Can’t Know What You Don’t Know (Laurie Solnik)
• We Are Family: A Journey With the 2G Discussion List (Dr. Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz)
• Notes on Contributors