After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins Hoffman Eva
After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins Hoffman Eva As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and…
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After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins Hoffman Eva
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others?
She examines the subterranean processes through which private memories of suffering are transmitted, and the more willful stratagems of collective memory. 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 traces the "second
After Such Knowledge Hoffman Eva
After the End of History