The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Helen & Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Hartman, Geoffrey H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253330335 ISBN 13: 9780253330338

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1996

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Book by Hartman Geoffrey H

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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.

Biografía del autor:

GEOFFREY H. HARTMAN, Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, is cofounder and Projects Director of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. His books include Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars and The Fate of Reading. He is editor of Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory, Midrash and Literature, and Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0253330335
• ISBN 13: 9780253330338
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196