Lessons and Legacies VIII: From Generation to Generation

ISBN-13: 9780810125339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 354 str.

Doris L. Bergen; Theodore Zev Weiss

Opis

Primo Levi opened his memoir "Survival in Auschwitz" with a call to remember, reflect upon, and teach about the Holocaustor to face the rejection of subsequent generations. The transmittal of this urgent knowledge between generations was the theme of the eighth Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust, and it is the focus of this volume. The circular formulationfrom generation to generationpoints backward and forward: where do we locate the roots of the Holocaust, and how do its repercussions manifest themselves? The contributors address these questions from various perspectiveshistory, cultural studies, psychiatry, literature, and sociology. They also bring to bear the personal aspect of associated issues such as continuity and rupture. What has the generation of the Shoah passed on to its descendants? What have subsequent generations taken from these legacies? Contributions by scholars, some of whom are survivors and children of survivors, remind us that the Holocaust doesand mustremain present from generation to generation."