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9780099464723

After Such Knowledge

by  Eva Hoffman


ISBN-10: 0099464721

ISBN-13: 9780099464723

$20.31




Book Specs



Binding

Trade Paper

Publisher

Vintage Books USA

Published on  

Mar 3, 2005

Edition  

1st Edition

Dimensions  

5.08x0.79x7.80 Inches

Weight  

0.49 Pounds

About the Book

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 collective memory. As she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-informed understanding of a forbidding history.