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Book SynopsisThis volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. By bringing together authors and scholars (often both) from different generations, countries, and languages, and focusing on transgenerational and translational issues, the volume presents multiple perspectives on the subject of Holocaust memory, its impact, and its ongoing worldwide communication.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: On Taking Renuka to Her First Concert Anne Ranasinghe Introduction Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter Part I Language and Memory 01 The Tongue in Exile Carol Ascher 02 Translating Oral Memory and Visual Media in Ida Fink’s “Traces” Daniel Feldman 03 Lies of Ulysses in the Forgotten Camps: French Accounts by Mittelbau-Dora Survivors and Their Uses in Memory Politics Bruno Arich-Gerz 04 French Canada as a Site of Holocaust Representation Rebecca Margolis Part II Making Sense of the Parents’ Holocaust History 05 Intimate Horror: Memorializing my Mother’s Holocaust Doron Ben-Atar 06 Invisible Ink: The Limits of Recovery Julia Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz 07 The Impact of the Shoah on One Scholar’s Journey: An Autobiographical Reflection Steven Leonard Jacobs 08 Against Forgetting: An Essay in Three Parts Elizabeth Rosner Part III 1.5 Generation 09 Hebrew as “Remedy” to the Shoah in Dan Pagis’ Poetry Federico Dal Bo 10 Vicarious Witnesses and Translation in Kindertransport Poetry Christoph Houswitschka 11 Between Grief and Celebration Naomi Shmuel 12 The Girl—1943: on reading Karen Gershon Joseph Swann Part IV Objects and What to Make of Them 13 Coming to German Richard Aronowitz 14 Translating Memory: The Lagertagebuch kept by Isy Aronowitz (1940-43) and Five Amber Beads (2006) by Richard Aronowitz Christoph Heyl 15 Found Objects: The Legacy of Third-Generation Holocaust Memory Victoria Aarons 16 Why Don’t You Talk to Me? Transmissional Objects in the Works of Gila Lustiger and Nicole Krauss Maria Roca Lizarazu 17 Pebbles on the Trail of Time: Peter Wortsman’s and Louise Steinman’s Travelogues Bettina Hofmann Part V Members of the Second and Third Generation in Quest of Their Identity 18 Attempting to Remember What They Never Knew: The Identity Quest of Second and Third Generation Holocaust Survivors as Reflected in Recent Israeli Documentary Yael Munk 19 Beyond Age and Nationality: Transgenerational and Transnational Memories in Robert Schindel’s Gebürtig and Der Kalte Lilian Gergely 20 Translating Silence: Non-Memory, Lost Memory and Holocaust Literature Sue Lieberman 21 Narratives beyond Words: Notes on the Embodiment of Trauma and Cultural/Religious Jewishness among Third Generation Jews in Germany Dani Kranz 22 Epilogue: The Fairy Tale of the Blessed Meal Peter Wortsman About the Contributors
