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This 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, this book presents multiple perspectives on the subject of Holocaust memory, its impact, and its ongoing worldwide communication.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
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
About the author
Bettina Hofmann teaches American studies at the University of Wuppertal. She recently co-edited the volumes Life Writing: Lives in Focus of PraxisEnglish and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives.Ursula Reuter is director of Germania Judaica, Köln Library on the History of German Jewry.Bettina Hofmann teaches American studies at the University of Wuppertal. She recently co-edited the volumes Life Writing: Lives in Focus of PraxisEnglish and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives.Ursula Reuter is director of Germania Judaica, Köln Library on the History of German Jewry.Rebecca Margolis is Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Australia.
