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This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.
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
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
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 Praxis English and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives.
Ursula Reuter is director of Germania Judaica, Köln Library on the History of German Jewry.
