Re-presenting the Shoah for the twenty-first century / edited by Ronit Lentin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lenṭin, Ronit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 282 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Despite Adorno's famous dictum, the memory of the Shoah features prominently in the cultural legacy of the 20th century and beyond. It has led to a proliferation of works of representation and re-memorialization which have brought in their wake concerns about a 'holocaust industry' and banalization. This volume sheds fresh light on some of the issues, such as the question of silence and denial, of the formation of contemporary identities — German, East European, Jewish or Israeli, the consequences of the legacy of the Shoah for survivors and for the 'second generation,' and the political, ideological, and professional implications of Shoah historiography. One of the conclusions to be drawn from this volume is that the 'Auschwitz code,' invoked in relation to all 'unspeakable' catastrophes, has impoverished our vocabulary; it does not help us remember the Shoah and its victims, but rather erases that memory.

Contents:

Introduction: postmemory, unsayability and the return of the Auschwitz code / Ronit Lentin

Categorial murder, or: how to remember the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman

'The word passed away, as that world awakened': on the (Im)possibility of representation / Heidrun Friese

Momory, forgetting and mourning work: deviant narratives of silence in the gendered relations between Israeli Zionism and the Shoah / Ronit Lentin

Entering the world of a Holocaust victim: schoolchildren discuss a ghetto memoir

a case study / Janina Bauman

A dural perspective: Yaakov Shabtai and the historian's account of the deportation to mauritius / Dalia Ofer

Memory, authenticity and replication of the Shoah in museums: defensive tools of the nation / Andrea Tyndall

Forbidden laughter? The politics and ethics of the Holocaust film comedy / Yosefa Loshitzky

Voice, silence and memory: the escape from Auschwitz and the Israeli historiography / Ruth Linn

The Shoah and Marxism: behind and beyond silence / Philip Spencer

Re-presenting the Shoah in Poland and Poland in the Shoah / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska

Denying the Holocaust where it happened: post-communist east central Europe and the Shoah / Michael Shafir

Evoking and revoking Auschwitz: Kosovo, remembrance and German national identity / Christine Achinger

Exile, daughterhood and writing: representing the Shoah as a personal memory / Esther Fuchs.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-587-5

1-57181-802-2