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Author: Alan L. Berger Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815606819 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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Heirs to the legacy of Auschwjtz, the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators have always been thought of as separated by fear and anger, mistrust and shame. This groundbreaking study provides a forum for expression in which each group reflects candidly upon the consuming burdens and challenges it has inherited. In these intensely personal and frequently dramatic pieces, understandable differences surface. The Jewish second generation is unified by a search for memory and family. Their German counterparts experience the opposite. Yet surprising common ground is revealed. Each group emerges out of households where, for vastly different reasons, the Holocaust was not mentioned. Each struggles to break this barrier of silence. Each has witnessed the continued survival of parents and must grapple with living in households haunted by denial. And each knows it is his or her charge to shape the Holocaust for future generations. To be sure, there is disagreement among the groups about the need for-or wisdom of-dialogue. Yet Second Generation Voices boldly engenders authentic grounds for discussion. Issues such as guilt, anger, religious faith, and accountability are explored in deeply felt poems, essays, and narratives. Jew and German alike speak openly of forming and affirming their own identities, reconnecting with roots, and working through their own "psychological Holocaust."
Author: Alan L. Berger Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815606819 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
Heirs to the legacy of Auschwjtz, the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators have always been thought of as separated by fear and anger, mistrust and shame. This groundbreaking study provides a forum for expression in which each group reflects candidly upon the consuming burdens and challenges it has inherited. In these intensely personal and frequently dramatic pieces, understandable differences surface. The Jewish second generation is unified by a search for memory and family. Their German counterparts experience the opposite. Yet surprising common ground is revealed. Each group emerges out of households where, for vastly different reasons, the Holocaust was not mentioned. Each struggles to break this barrier of silence. Each has witnessed the continued survival of parents and must grapple with living in households haunted by denial. And each knows it is his or her charge to shape the Holocaust for future generations. To be sure, there is disagreement among the groups about the need for-or wisdom of-dialogue. Yet Second Generation Voices boldly engenders authentic grounds for discussion. Issues such as guilt, anger, religious faith, and accountability are explored in deeply felt poems, essays, and narratives. Jew and German alike speak openly of forming and affirming their own identities, reconnecting with roots, and working through their own "psychological Holocaust."
Author: Kathy Grinblat Publisher: ISBN: Category : Children of Holocaust survivors Languages : en Pages : 232
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The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child and what it meant to grow up in a home affected by the shadows of the Holocaust.
Author: Eleanor Sontag Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781456823658 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 82
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I have been consumed with thoughts about the Holocaust ever since I was a little girl and I have decided to write about my experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors both as a catharsis and as a memorial to my parents' memories. I would like to note at the outset of this memoir that until very recently, I always felt that the story I want to tell here was not my story at all, it belonged to my parents what happened affected them profoundly, but surely, or so I thought, not me. I am American born born in 1943 and brought up in the tiny village of Homer in Upstate New York. I have been fortunate enough to have lived a relatively peaceful life which is light-years apart from the experience of my parents. But I have come to realize that my parents' stories are, indeed, my stories. Their identity is, indeed, my identity in very profound ways. They survived the Holocaust. I am a second generation survivor. As a child, I lived under the pall of the Holocaust. My parents had been thrown out of Germany. That's exactly the way my Dad sneered the words he was "thrown out of Germany by Hitler." When speaking of Hitler with our relatives, he always referred to him as that "Schweinehund," the nastiest epithet he could conjure up translation, "pig dog." The English translation does not do justice to the scorn in his voice. When he used those words, his entire body revealed his contempt. Fortunately for our family, my parents were able to escape Germany in 1939 shortly before the mass murders began. My parents rarely talked about their experiences, but it pervaded the air I breathed from the day I was born in a hospital in Cortland, New York, three miles from Homer, New York, three thousand miles from where the catastrophe of the Holocaust took place. Whenever my parents would get together with family or friends, their voices would be hushed as they would talk about things that I was not supposed to hear because I was too young. I learned about the Holocaust the way most children learn about taboo things by listening in stairwells or by pretending to be asleep as my parents had conversations in German in hushed voices. In this way, the story of the Holocaust seeped into my consciousness subliminally and effortlessly.
Author: Louis Girifalco Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781505434217 Category : Languages : en Pages : 348
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The future is rushing to meet me and I know that I will realize only a fraction of what I am and can be. I am beginning to truly absorb the fact of mortality and I don't like it. There are so many more things I can do; that I want to do. And there is much that I would like to pass on, So I am offering this collection of essays and stories, thoughts and ideas which, taken together define a life of transition between two worlds. Only after reading what I have written, did I discover that the central core of my reality is that I am a child of the second generation. I was born between two worlds and was an integral part of two worlds. I wanted to become fully "American," to transcend the old world ideas, customs, prejudices and accents; above all, the accents, which marked us as so different. "Diversity" was not celebrated during my childhood as it is now. So we did our best to fit in, to become like the others and to deny our roots. At the same time, our culture demanded respect for our elders, for their opinions and for their values and we could not escape this. Somehow, the children of the second generation reconciled this duality and grew to be true Americans; the strangers who absorb the American ideas of personal freedom and opportunity, while retaining the best of the old ways. In that uniquely American way, we have struggled and we have triumphed.
Author: Janet Handler Burstein Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299212432 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 281
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Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of “home” in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within “the little secrets” of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.
Author: Rita Benn Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1947951505 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 354
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How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity? Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with the aftermath of their parents’ inconceivable experiences during the Holocaust. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain. Awards: Foreword Indies Gold Award for Anthologies, 2022 and Nautilus Silver Award for Heroic Journeys, 2023
Author: Efraim Sicher Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135457158 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 241
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The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include an annotated bibliography, chronology, and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as Night, Maus, The Shawl, Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, White Noise, and Time's Arrow.
Author: Louis A. Girifalco Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781507734902 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 348
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The future is rushing to meet me, and I know that I will realize only a fraction of what I am and can be. I am beginning to truly absorb the fact of mortality, and I don't like it. There are so many more things I can do; that I want to do. And there is much that I would like to pass on, especially to my children and grandchildren. So I am writing down a few of my memories. But this is not a traditional memoir. It is a collection of essays and stories, thoughts and ideas which, taken together, define a life of transition between two worlds.
Author: Jessica Lang Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813589940 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader’s analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader’s ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.
Author: Rajamani Ganesh Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306473305 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 374
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This book is a collection of invited papers that were presented at the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, September 5-8, 1998, Boston, MA. These papers are meant to provide a global view of the emerging third-generation wireless networks in the wake of the third millennium. Following the tradition of the PIMRC conferences, the papers are selected to strike a balance between the diverse interests of academia and industry by addressing issues of interest to the designers, manufacturers, and service providers involved in the wireless networking industry. The tradition of publishing a collection of the invited papers presented at the PIMRC started in PIMRC’97, Helsinki, Finland. There are two benefits to this tradition (1) it provides a shorter version of the proceedings of the conference that is more focused on a specific theme (2) the papers are comprehensive and are subject of a more careful review process to improve the contents as well as the presentation of the material, making it more appealing for archival as a reference book. The production costs of the book is subsidized by the conference and the editors have donated the royalty income of the book to the conference.
Author: Alan L. Berger
Author: Alan L. Berger
Author: Kathy Grinblat
Author: Eleanor Sontag
Author: Louis Girifalco
Author: Janet Handler Burstein
Author: Rita Benn
Author: Efraim Sicher
Author: Louis A. Girifalco
Author: Jessica Lang
Author: Rajamani Ganesh