Breaking Crystal: Memory and Writing after Auschwitz - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252022807 ISBN 13: 9780252022807

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1997

Synopsis

The first multidisciplinary study of its kind, Breaking Crystal examines how members of the generation after the Holocaust in Israel and the United States confront through their own imaginations a traumatic event they have not directly experienced. Among the questions this groundbreaking work raises are: Whose memory is it? What will the collective memory of the Holocaust be in the twenty-first century, after the last survivors have given testimony? How in the aftermath of the Holocaust do we read and write literature and history? How is the memory inscribed in film and art? Is the appropriation of the Holocaust to political agendas a desecration of the six million Jews? What will the children of survivors pass on to the next generation?

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0252022807
• ISBN 13: 9780252022807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Sicher Efraim