Overview
As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors, and the second-generations responsibilities to its received memories? In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva Hoffmana child of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust with the help of neighbors, but whose entire families perishedprobes these questions through personal reflections, and through broader explorations of the historical, psychological, and moral implication of the second-generation experience. As she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past to the newly problematic present, and urges us to transform potent family narratives into a fully informed understanding of a forbidding history. * A New York Times Notable Book 2003
Full Product Details
Author: Eva Hoffman
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Edition: export ed
Dimensions:
Width: 20.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 12.60cm
Weight: 0.328kg
ISBN: 9781586483043
ISBN 10: 1586483048
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 27 April 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
New in paperback, Eva Hoffman's extraordinarily clear-eyed and unsentimental meditation on our relationship to the Holocaust. New York Times Book Review Hoffman believes in supplanting moral passion with moral thorught, which means incorporating memory into our consciousness of the world. Her graceful and honorific book is the sincere expression of that belief The Guardian The wisest and most sensitive writer about the Polish background to the Shoah...(a) wonderful memoir... Financial Times
""New in paperback, Eva Hoffman's ""extraordinarily clear-eyed and unsentimental meditation"" on our relationship to the Holocaust. New York Times Book Review ""Hoffman believes in supplanting moral passion with moral thorught, which means incorporating memory into our consciousness of the world. Her graceful and honorific book is the sincere expression of that belief"" The Guardian ""The wisest and most sensitive writer about the Polish background to the Shoah...(a) wonderful memoir..."" Financial Times""
"""New in paperback, Eva Hoffman's ""extraordinarily clear-eyed and unsentimental meditation"" on our relationship to the Holocaust. New York Times Book Review ""Hoffman believes in supplanting moral passion with moral thorught, which means incorporating memory into our consciousness of the world. Her graceful and honorific book is the sincere expression of that belief"" The Guardian ""The wisest and most sensitive writer about the Polish background to the Shoah...(a) wonderful memoir..."" Financial Times"""
Author Information
Eva Hoffman was born in 1945 in Cracow, Poland. Her Jewish family hid throughout the war, finally emigrating to Canada in 1959, when Eva was 13. Educated in America, Hoffman now splits her time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
