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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139461115

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This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.

Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Autobiographical memory
ISBN : 1139132512

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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

An exploration of the work of dramatists and writers connected by the idea of memory and its relationship to the Holocaust, this work begins with a discussion of W.G. Sebald and his examinations of the Holocaust and its interpretation in diaries, memoirs, drama and literature.

Imagining the Holocaust

Author : Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0333947088

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Imagining the Holocaust by Daniel R. Schwarz Pdf

In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of that time. He begins with first person narratives-- Wiesel's Night and Levi's Survival at Auschwitz --and then turns to searingly realistic fictions such as Borowski's This Way to the Gas Chamber, Ladies and Gentlemen, before turning to the Kafkaesque parables of Appelfeld and the fantastic cartoons of Spiegleman's Maus books. Schwarz argues that as we move further away from the original events, the narratives authors use to render the Holocaust horror evolve to include fantasy and parable, and he shows how diverse audiences respond differently to these highly charged and emotional texts.

Breaking Crystal

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0252066561

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The first multidisciplinary study of its kind, Breaking Crystal examines how members of the generation after the Holocaust in Israel and the United States confront through their own imaginations a traumatic event they have not directly experienced. Among the questions this groundbreaking work raises are: Whose memory is it? What will the collective memory of the Holocaust be in the twenty-first century, after the last survivors have given testimony? How in the aftermath of the Holocaust do we read and write literature and history? How is the memory inscribed in film and art? Is the appropriation of the Holocaust to political agendas a desecration of the six million Jews? What will the children of survivors pass on to the next generation?

Remembering to Forget

Author : Barbie Zelizer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226979733

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AcknowledgmentsI: Collective Memories, Images, and the Atrocity of War II: Before the Liberation: Journalism, Photography, and the Early Coverage of Atrocity III: Covering Atrocity in Word IV: Covering Atrocity in Image V: Forgetting to Remember: Photography as Ground of Early Atrocity MemoriesVI: Remembering to Remember: Photography as Figure of Contemporary Atrocity Memories VII: Remembering to Forget: Contemporary Scrapbooks of Atrocity Notes Selected Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

After Such Knowledge

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391351

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As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities to its received memories? In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva Hoffman -- a child of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust with the help of neighbors, but whose entire families perished -- probes these questions through personal reflections, and through broader explorations of the historical, psychological, and moral implications of the second-generation experience. She examines the subterranean processes through which private memories of suffering are transmitted, and the more willful stratagems of collective memory. She traces the "second generation's" trajectory from childhood intimations of horror, through its struggles between allegiance and autonomy, and its complex transactions with children of perpetrators. As she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past to the newly problematic present, and urges us to transform potent family stories into a fully informed understanding of a forbidding history.

Remembering the Holocaust

Author : Esther Jilovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780936116

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An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering the Holocaust shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next. Through the discussion of a range of memoirs and novels, including Landscapes of Memory by Ruth Kluger, Too Many Men by Lily Brett, The War After by Anne Karpf and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Remembering the Holocaust reveals the pivotal yet complicated role of place in each generation's writing about the Holocaust. This book provides an insightful and nuanced investigation of the effect of the Holocaust upon families, from survivors of the genocide to members of the second and even third generations of families involved. By deploying an innovative combination of generational and literary study of Holocaust survivor families focussed on place, Remembering the Holocaust makes an important contribution to the field of Holocaust Studies that will be of interest to scholars and anyone interested in Holocaust remembrance.

Flares of Memory

Author : Anita Brostoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190288785

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In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten. Ninety-two brief vignettes arranged both chronologically and thematically recreate the disbelief and chaos that ensued as families were separated, political rights were abolished, and synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed. Survivors remember the daily humiliation, the quiet heroes among their friends, and the painful abandonment by neighbors as Jews were restricted to ghettos, forced to don yellow stars, and loaded like cattle into trains. Vivid memories of hunger, disease, and a daily existence dependent on cruel luck provide penetrating testimonies to the ruthlessness of the Nazi killing machine, yet they also bear witness to the resilience and fortitude of individual souls bombarded by evil. "I don't think that there will be many readers who will be able to put this book down."--Jerome Chanes, National Foundation for Jewish Culture

See Under: Shoah

Author : Marc De Kesel,Bettine Siertsema,Katarzyna Szurmiak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004280946

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See Under: Shoah by Marc De Kesel,Bettine Siertsema,Katarzyna Szurmiak Pdf

Did the first generation Holocaust writers not warn us against the risks of imagination? Does it not create an illusion that the unimaginable can be imagined, the unrepresentable represented? Clearly this warning has not been taken up by David Grossman. Fully embracing imagination’s power, his novel See under: Love offers a profound reflection on how the twenty-first century can assume the heritage of the Shoah and remember the ‘unmemorable’ in a proper way. The essays in this volume reflect on this one novel, though each from its own angle. Focusing on one single novel shows the surplus value of a multispectral reflection on one central problem, in this case the allegedly inconceivable and unspeakable nature of the Shoah.

Holocaust Testimonies

Author : Lawrence L. Langer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0300173717

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Annotation This important and original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. Langer argues that it is necessary to deromanticize the survival experience and that to burden it with accolades about the "indomitable human spirit" is to slight its painful complexity and ambivalence.

Remember Not to Forget

Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0827607709

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A brief introduction to the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.

Holocaust and Memory

Author : Barbara Engelking
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826477675

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Originally published in Polish to great acclaim and based on interviews with survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, Holocaust and Memory provides a moving description of their life during the war and the sense they made of it. The book begins by looking at the differences between the wartime experiences of Jews and Poles in occupied Poland, both in terms of Nazi legislation and individual experiences. On the Aryan side of the ghetto wall, Jews could either be helped or blackmailed by Poles. The largest section of the book reconstructs everyday life in the ghetto. The psychological consequences of wartime experiences are explored, including interviews with survivors who stayed on in Poland after the war and were victims of anti-Semitism again in 1968. These discussions bring into question some of the accepted survivor stereotypes found in Holocaust literature. A final chapter looks at the legacy of the Holocaust, the problems of transmitting experience and of the place of the Holocaust in Polish history and culture.

The Drowned and the Saved

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781501167638

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In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget about the Holocaust. His last book before his death, Levi returns to the subject that would define his reputation as a writer and a witness. Levi breaks his book into eight essays, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the victimizer. He shares how difficult it is for him to tell his experiences with his children and friends. He also debunks the myth that most of the Germans were in the dark about the Final Solution or that Jews never attempted to escape the camps. As the Holocaust recedes into the past and fewer and fewer survivors are left to tell their stories, The Drowned and the Saved is a vital first-person testament. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit.

The Mnemonic Imagination

Author : E. Keightley,M. Pickering
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137271549

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An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

Imagining the Unimaginable

Author : Glyn Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501350559

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Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre's major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies. The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable. The Holocaust has been compared to an earthquake, another planet, another universe, a void. It has been said to be beyond language, or else have its own incomprehensible language, beyond art, and beyond thought. The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction, the dystopia and the alternate history, while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust.