After Such Knowledge Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-27
Publisher(s): PublicAffairs
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Summary

Sixty years after the Holocaust, the author of "Lost in Translation" explores the difficult process of preserving an authentic version of its tragic events

Author Biography

Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, and emigrated to Canada at the age of thirteen. She is the author of three highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, Lost in Translation, Exit into History, and Shtetl, and one novel, The Secret. She divides her time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a visiting professor at MIT.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ix
PART I From Event to Fable 1(30)
PART II From Fable to Psyche 31(44)
PART III From Psyche to Narrative 75(26)
PART IV From Narrative to Morality 101(48)
PART V From Morality to Memory 149(52)
PART VI From Memory to the Past 201(34)
PART VII From the Past to the Present 235(46)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 281(12)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 293(2)
INDEX 295

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