..". a fresh critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography... " B'nai B'rith Messenger
"This is the first and most sophisticated attempt I have come across to apply modern literary theory to Holocaust material, and the act of mediation which it involves is worthy of praise." Naomi Diamant, Prooftexts
"This is an authoritative and comprehensive, critical study covering all aspects of the remembrance of the Holocaust. James E. Young has written an exhaustive work, analyzing the many forms in which the Holocaust has been dealt with... " AJL...
..". a fresh critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography... " B'nai B'rith Messenger
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Auge suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Renowned as an anthropologist and an innovative social thinker, Auge's meditation moves from how forgetting the present or recent past enables us to return to earlier pasts, to how forgetting propels us into the present, and finally to how forgetting becomes a necessary part of survival. "Oblivion moves with authority and ease among a wide variety of...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forge...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Auge suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Renowned as an anthropologist and an innovative social thinker, Auge's meditation moves from how forgetting the present or recent past enables us to return to earlier pasts, to how forgetting propels us into the present, and finally to how forgetting becomes a necessary part of survival. "Oblivion moves with authority and ease among a wide variety of...
For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forge...
In October of 1986, Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by Jewish deportees from across Europe during the Holocaust. The photos, both candid snapshots and studied portraits, had been confiscated, but instead of being destroyed they were hidden at great risk and saved. In many cases these pictures are the only remnants left of entire families.
In this revised edition of The Last Album there are over 400 of these remarkable photographs. The collection traces the story of how they arrived at...
In October of 1986, Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by ...
