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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Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust Eva Hoffman. After Such Knowledge 9 memory,history, andthe legacy ofthe holocaust l Eva Hoffman PublicAffairs New York To my sister Alina, fellow inheritor ofthe legacy. and Rafael.
Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust Eva Hoffman. After Such Knowledge 9 memory,history, andthe legacy ofthe holocaust l Eva Hoffman PublicAffairs New York To my sister Alina, fellow inheritor ofthe legacy. and Rafael.
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Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust Eva Hoffman. To my sister Alina, fellow inheritor ofthe legacy. and Rafael (Felek) Scharf, who knew how to transmit knowledge. Copyright © 2004 by Eva Hoffman. Published in the United ...
Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust Eva Hoffman. To my sister Alina, fellow inheritor ofthe legacy. and Rafael (Felek) Scharf, who knew how to transmit knowledge. Copyright © 2004 by Eva Hoffman. Published in the United ...
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... sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, and aunts. On the Jewish high holidays, when our small family went to one of Cracow's old synagogues, we met a community in mourning. The facts of death were so ubiquitous that they seemed both to ...
... sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, and aunts. On the Jewish high holidays, when our small family went to one of Cracow's old synagogues, we met a community in mourning. The facts of death were so ubiquitous that they seemed both to ...
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... sister—this was the heart of grief—had been murdered. She was shot into a mass grave in Załosce, not far from where my parents were hiding. A witness later told my mother that the Jews rounded up for that particular massacre had to dig ...
... sister—this was the heart of grief—had been murdered. She was shot into a mass grave in Załosce, not far from where my parents were hiding. A witness later told my mother that the Jews rounded up for that particular massacre had to dig ...
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... sister, young, innocent, and loved, standing naked above a pit that is soon to become her own mass grave . . . Brutal-faced Germans with large vicious dogs. Humiliating orders shouted in a harsh language. (“You should have seen their ...
... sister, young, innocent, and loved, standing naked above a pit that is soon to become her own mass grave . . . Brutal-faced Germans with large vicious dogs. Humiliating orders shouted in a harsh language. (“You should have seen their ...
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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