Holocaust Literature and Representation: Their Lives, Our Words

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Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work they do, but their personal story, their journey to becoming a specialist in Holocaust studies. What academic, political, cultural, and personal experiences led them to choose Holocaust representation as their subject of research and teaching? What challenges did they face on their journey? What approaches, genres, media, or other forms of Holocaust representation did they choose and why? How and where did they find a scholarly “home” in which to share their work productively? Have political, social, and cultural conditions today affected how they think about their work on Holocaust representation? How do they imagine their work moving forward, including new challenges, responses, and audiences? These are but a few of the questions that the authors in this volume address, showing that a scholar's field of research and resulting writings are not arbitrary, and are often informed by their personal history and professional experiences. Cover Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication CONTENTS Introduction Phyllis Lassner and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Notes PART ONE North America 1 Voices from the Past Victoria Aarons Notes 2 Movies as Prosthetic Holocaust Memories Lawrence Baron Film and Television as a Childhood Source of Holocaust Awareness My Path to German History From Esoteric Scholarship to Holocaust Research Becoming a Film Historian The Emotional Impact of Holocaust Films Beyond Holocaust Cinema Notes 3 Personal and Professional Autobiographies: Reechoing Memories of the Holocaust Rachel Feldhay Brenner Instead of a Conclusion Notes 4 A Winding Road Margarete Myers Feinstein The Path to German History First Encounters with Holocaust Denial First Steps into Holocaust Representation and Another Encounter with Denial Detours and Family Life Looking Back Notes 5 Biographia Literaria Feminista Sara R. Horowitz Paths Not Taken Literary Encounters Literary Mentors Thinking about Gender 6 My Journey into the Shoah David Patterson 7 My Holocaust Autobiography: The Mortal Storm Alexis Pogorelskin Discoveries Turning Point [The] Holocaust Education Foundation Rediscoveries The Mortal Storm Notes 8 Gendered Encounters: The Holocaust and Life Writing Ravenel Richardson Holocaust Encounters What we talk about when we talk about war University, or Accidental Exposure to Comparative Literature Graduate School: From Scotland to the Holocaust What is (not) in the archive HEF Fellowship Motherhood and Mentorship Between Literature and History Uncomfortable Truths Conclusion Notes PART TWO Great Britain 9 Before the Gate of Memory Joshua Lander Jew-Boy Jew, Jew, Jew PART TWO Great Britain Constructing Gates: In Memory of Memory Notes 10 I Am Not Jewish Joanne Pettitt A Very British Upbringing Student Years PhD and Beyond Perpetrators Conclusion Notes 11 Representing the Holocaust in Britain Sue Vice Notes PART THREE Israel 12 Following in the Footsteps of Claude Vigée: From the Holocaust Trauma to a New Science of Judaism Thierry Alcoloumbre My Encounter with Claude Vigée and the Question of the Shoah From Vigée to the “Paris School of Jewish Thought” Conclusion Notes 13 Where Did Those People Go? Karen Alkalay-Gut Introduction Silence Notes 14 Untold Story, Indirect Course: My Path into the Field of Holocaust Literature and Representation Michal Ben-Horin From Emek Yizre’el to Tel Aviv Berlin and Jerusalem Gainesville and Philadelphia Back to Tel Aviv 15 Too Much, Too Little: A Personal Journey through Holocaust Narratives Keren Goldfrad Introduction Teaching and Studying Holocaust Narratives Omission and Excess in Narrative Conclusion Notes 16 “Why Don’t You Move On?”: A Sort of Play in Three Acts and Three Standing Ovations Roy Horovitz Prologue Act 1: Child and Adolescen Act 2: Actor Act 3: Director and Scholar Epilogue Notes 17 Intersecting Narratives: When East Meets West Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan Forward: A Mizrahi Child Approaches the Holocaust Forbidden Love Approaching Holocaust Research through Film “Yes, I Can”: Approaching the Holocaust and Antisemitism Among Mizrahi Jews Approaching the Holocaust in a Global Context Afterword: Approaching the Future Notes 18 Voicing the Unvoiced Liliane Steiner Childhood Seeds Meeting a Holocaust Survivor Silence and the Holocaust “The Lost Shore” Choosing Silence Voicing the Unvoiced Edith’s Talk A Voice from the Holocaust From Bedzin to Dimona A Chain of Memory Conclusion Notes 19 How Literature Chose Me Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz Introduction History Catching Up Achieving the Rudiments of Literacy Aliyah Haifa University, 1994 PhD Contributors INDEX OF PEOPLE INDEX OF PLACES INDEX OF ORGANIZATIONS