Translated Memories

Bettina Hofmann teaches American Studies at the University of Wuppertal. She recently edited the volume Life Writing: Lives in Focus of Praxis Englisch and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives. Ursula Reuter is currently director of Germania Judaica, Köln Library on the History of German Jewry.

Acknowledgments

Prologue: On Taking Renuka to Her First Concert
Anne Ranasinghe

Introduction
Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter

Part I
Language and Memory

01
The Tongue in Exile
Carol Ascher

02
Translating Oral Memory and Visual Media in Ida Fink’s “Traces”
Daniel Feldman

03
Lies of Ulysses in the Forgotten Camps: French Accounts by Mittelbau-Dora Survivors and Their Uses in Memory Politics
Bruno Arich-Gerz

04
French Canada as a Site of Holocaust Representation
Rebecca Margolis

Part II
Making Sense of the Parents’ Holocaust History

05
Intimate Horror: Memorializing my Mother’s Holocaust
Doron Ben-Atar

06
Invisible Ink: The Limits of Recovery
Julia Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz

07
The Impact of the Shoah on One Scholar’s Journey: An Autobiographical Reflection
Steven Leonard Jacobs

08
Against Forgetting: An Essay in Three Parts
Elizabeth Rosner

Part III
1.5 Generation

09
Hebrew as “Remedy” to the Shoah in Dan Pagis’ Poetry
Federico Dal Bo

10
Vicarious Witnesses and Translation in Kindertransport Poetry
Christoph Houswitschka

11
Between Grief and Celebration
Naomi Shmuel

12
The Girl—1943: on reading Karen Gershon
Joseph Swann

Part IV
Objects and What to Make of Them

13
Coming to German
Richard Aronowitz

14
Translating Memory: The Lagertagebuch kept by Isy Aronowitz (1940-43) and Five Amber Beads (2006) by Richard Aronowitz
Christoph Heyl

15
Found Objects: The Legacy of Third-Generation Holocaust Memory
Victoria Aarons

16
Why Don’t You Talk to Me? Transmissional Objects in the Works of Gila Lustiger and Nicole Krauss
Maria Roca Lizarazu

17
Pebbles on the Trail of Time: Peter Wortsman’s and Louise Steinman’s Travelogues
Bettina Hofmann

Part V
Members of the Second and Third Generation in Quest of Their Identity

18
Attempting to Remember What They Never Knew: The Identity Quest of Second and Third Generation Holocaust Survivors as Reflected in Recent Israeli Documentary
Yael Munk

19
Beyond Age and Nationality: Transgenerational and Transnational Memories in Robert Schindel’s Gebürtig and Der Kalte
Lilian Gergely

20
Translating Silence: Non-Memory, Lost Memory and Holocaust Literature
Sue Lieberman

21
Narratives beyond Words: Notes on the Embodiment of Trauma and Cultural/Religious Jewishness among Third Generation Jews in Germany
Dani Kranz

22
Epilogue: The Fairy Tale of the Blessed Meal
Peter Wortsman

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