The longest shadow : in the aftermath of the Holocaust
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The longest shadow : in the aftermath of the Holocaust
（The Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies）
Indiana University Press, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Distinguished literary scholar Geoffrey H. Hartman, himself forced to leave Germany at age nine, collects his essays, both scholarly and personal, that focus on the Holocaust. Hartman contends that although progress has been made, we are only beginning to understand the horrendous events of 1933 to 1945. The continuing struggle for meaning, consolation, closure, and the establishment of a collective memory against the natural tendency toward forgetfulness is a recurring theme. The many forms of response to the devastation - from historical research and survivors' testimony to the novels, films, and monuments that have appeared over the last fifty years - reflect and inform efforts to come to grips with the past, despite events (like those at Bitburg) that attempt to foreclose it.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: On Closure 1. The Longest Shadow 2. The Weight of What Happened 3. Darkness Visible 4. Bitburg 5. The Voice of Vichy 6. The Cinema Animal: On SpielbergOs SchindlerOs List 7. Public Memory and its Discontents 8. The Book of the Destruction 9. Learning from Survivors: The Yale Testimony Project 10. Holocaust Testimony, Art, and Trauma Index
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