After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the HolocaustAs 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. |
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... moral passion with moral thought , which means incorporating memory into our consciousness of the world . Her graceful and honorific book is the sincere expression of that belief . ” -The Guardian [ UK ] “ An elegant and moving ...
... moral passion with moral thought , which means incorporating memory into our consciousness of the world . Her graceful and honorific book is the sincere expression of that belief . ” -The Guardian [ UK ] “ An elegant and moving ...
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... Morality 101 PART v From Morality to Memory 149 PART vi From Memory to the Past 201 PART vii From the Past to the Present 235 SELECTED BiBLioGRAPHy 281 ACkNoWLEDGMENTS 293 295 iNTRoDUCTioN And so, after all, the Holocaust. Sixty years ...
... Morality 101 PART v From Morality to Memory 149 PART vi From Memory to the Past 201 PART vii From the Past to the Present 235 SELECTED BiBLioGRAPHy 281 ACkNoWLEDGMENTS 293 295 iNTRoDUCTioN And so, after all, the Holocaust. Sixty years ...
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... moral quandaries implicit in dialogues with perpetrators; the difficulties of witnessing the pain of others and of thinking about tragic pasts; and the rela- tionship of private memory to a broader understanding of his- tory. The text ...
... moral quandaries implicit in dialogues with perpetrators; the difficulties of witnessing the pain of others and of thinking about tragic pasts; and the rela- tionship of private memory to a broader understanding of his- tory. The text ...
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... moral , and philosophical implications of the " second- generation " story . Indeed , it is part of my aim in this ... Morality is not separable from affect , or politics from psy- che — at least not in relation to experiences as potent ...
... moral , and philosophical implications of the " second- generation " story . Indeed , it is part of my aim in this ... Morality is not separable from affect , or politics from psy- che — at least not in relation to experiences as potent ...
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... moral, even a spiritual value. But it is important to be precise: We who came after do not have memories of the Holocaust. Even from my most intimate proximity I could not form “memories” of the Shoah or take my parents' memories as my ...
... moral, even a spiritual value. But it is important to be precise: We who came after do not have memories of the Holocaust. Even from my most intimate proximity I could not form “memories” of the Shoah or take my parents' memories as my ...
Contents
II From Fable to Psyche | 31 |
III From Psyche to Narrative | 75 |
IV From Narrative to Morality | 101 |
V From Morality to Memory | 149 |
VI From Memory to the Past | 201 |
VII From the Past to the Present | 235 |
Selected Bibliography | 281 |
Acknowledgments | 293 |
Index | 295 |
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