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Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Auto-biographies is composed of over 30 essays written by prominent researchers worldwide belonging to the “Second Generation” and “ Third Generation” of Holocaust offspring. Each essay traces the author’s path to a research profession, focusing on the influence of their family’s Holocaust background at various crossroads of their life.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - David Clark: - A Legacy of Displacement and the Search for Home - Samuel Juni: Righting a Life Which Started on the Wrong Foot - Ela Karpowicz: Becoming - Abraham J. Peck: Towards the Holocaust: A Son of Survivors in Search of Himself - Abraham Z. Reznick: The Holocaust and I - Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz: Nature or Nurture and My Search for Roots - Judith Tydor Baumel- Schwartz: In the Beginning There Was Auschwitz - Dov Dori: My Mother the Hero - Yehudit Judy Dori: From Holocaust to Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Dov Eichenwald: I Have No Other Country - Zehavit Gross: “I Didn’t Choose to be a Second Generation” - Anita H. Grosz: Would the Real Anita Please Rise - Jacqueline Heller: Surviving Survivors - Naomi Levy: On Being Second Generation and My Major Life Choices - Hilda Nissimi: The Holocaust Is a Black Hole - Katalin Pécsi- Pollner: Rewriting My Identity – From “Feeling Jewish” to Discovery of My Heritage - Haim Taitelbaum: Pass the Parcel - Dorota Glowacka: Hide and Seek: A Conversation with My Father in Three Voices - Susan Jacobowitz: Singing History - Shmuel Refael: A Greek- Jewish Family in a German Bauhaus - Dov Schwartz: Academia as a Voyage of Survival - Anita Winter: My Parents’ Story Is Also My Story – But Different - Dan Carter: My Heritage - Emmanuel Friedheim: Between the Shoah and Masada – An Unfulfilled Historical Journey - Rahel Jarach- Sztern: Memory, Tradition, Family: A Second Generation as Mother and Researcher - Rina Krautwirth: (Re)affirming the Past: Growing Up as the Child of a Holocaust Survivor - Liat Steir- Livny: From Holocaust “Intrusions” to Holocaust Research - Daniela Ozacky Stern: Reflections of a Third- Generation Holocaust Scholar - Ariel Zellman: Coming Home - Contributors
