Acknowledgements
Introduction: Postmemory, Unsayability and the Return of
the Auschwitz Code
Ronit Lentin
Chapter 1. Categorial Murder, or: How to Remember the
Holocaust
Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 2. ‘The word passed away, as that world
awakened’: On the (Im)possibility of Representation
Heidrun Friese
Chapter 3. Memory, Forgetting and Mourning Work: Deviant
Narratives of Silence in the Gendered Relations between Israeli
Zionism and the Shoah
Ronit Lentin
Chapter 4. Entering the World of a Holocaust Victim:
Schoolchildren Discuss a Ghetto Memoir – a Case Study
Janina Bauman
Chapter 5. A Dual Perspective: Yaakov Shabtai and the
Historian’s Account of the Deportation to Mauritius
Dalia Ofer
Chapter 6. Memory, Authenticity and Replication of the
Shoah in Museums: Defensive Tools of the Nation
Andrea Tyndall
Chapter 7. Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of
the Holocaust Film Comedy
Yosefa Loshitzky
Chapter 8. Voice, Silence and Memory: The Escape from
Auschwitz and the Israeli Historiography
Ruth Linn
Chapter 9. The Shoah and Marxism: Behind and Beyond
Silence
Philip Spencer
Chapter 10. Re-presenting the Shoah in Poland and Poland
in the Shoah
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska
Chapter 11. Denying the Holocaust where it Happened:
Post-Communist East Central Europe and the Shoah
Michael Shafir
Chapter 12. Evoking and Revoking Auschwitz: Kosovo,
Remembrance and German National Identity
Christine Achinger
Chapter 13. Exile, Daughterhood and Writing: Representing
the Shoah as a Personal Memory
Esther Fuchs
Notes on Contributors
Index
Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and has lived in Ireland since 1969. She is a well known writer of fiction and non-fiction books and is course co-ordinator of the MPhil in Ethnic Studies at the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. She has published extensively on the gendered link between Israel and the Shoah, feminist research methodologies, Israeli and Palestinian women’s peace activism, gender and racism in Ireland.
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