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After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Eva Hoffman
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Description for After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Paperback. As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. Through personal reflections and explorations of the historical, psychological and moral implications of the second-generation experience, the author talks about the legacy of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors, and the second generation's responsibilities to its received memories?
Eva Hoffman 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 wilful stratagems of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099464723
SKU
V9780099464723
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About Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, and emigrated to America at the age of thirteen. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she currently lives in London.
Reviews for After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Eloquent book, which struggles heroically to show that reason and scholarship still have value in the face of genocide and mass suffering
Times
Graceful and honorific
Observer
Hoffman draws upon disparate disciplines and forms of literature to probe the issues that haunt her generation
Frances Spalding
Independent
She is a sensitive but unsentimental ... Read more
Times
Graceful and honorific
Observer
Hoffman draws upon disparate disciplines and forms of literature to probe the issues that haunt her generation
Frances Spalding
Independent
She is a sensitive but unsentimental ... Read more