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Memory Work: The Second Generation (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
Nina Fischer
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Description for Memory Work: The Second Generation (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
Hardcover. Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 - it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.
Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137557612
SKU
V9781137557612
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99-15
About Nina Fischer
Nina Fischer teaches Jewish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has held positions and fellowships at the University of Konstanz, the Australian National University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research areas include Holocaust, Memory, Cultural, and Jewish Studies.
Reviews for Memory Work: The Second Generation (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
'Nina Fischer's exploration of Second Generation Holocaust literature goes beyond conventional notions of family memory as defined by trauma and pathology. In a crowded field, hers is a new voice, clear, subtle, and moving.' Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USA 'A capacious interdisciplinary study that takes us beyond the impasses of trauma, ... Read more