Persistent Legacy

Erin McGlothlin is assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri. Erin McGlothlin is assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. IRENE KACANDES is Professor Emerita of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON is Professor and Screen Cultures Program Director in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ithaca College. WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities and Professor of European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

• IntroductionNever Over, Over and Over - Jennifer M. KapczynskiThe Voice of the Perpetrator, The Voices of the Survivors - Erin McGlothlinTeaching Holocaust Memories as Part of "Germanistik" - Stephan Braese"Aber das ist alles Vergangenheitsbewältigung": German Studies' "Holocaust Bubble" and Its Literary Aftermath - William Collins DonahueEpistemology of the Hyphen: German-Jewish-Holocaust Studies - Leslie C. MorrisWriting Before the Shoah, and Reading After: Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theater? and Its Reception - Liliane WeissbergThe Power of Paratext: Jewish Authorship and Testimonial Authority in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand - Katja GarloffIdentifying with the Victims in the Land of the Perpetrators: Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche and Kevin Vennemann's Nahe Jedenew - Sven KramerLaying Claim to Painful Truths in Survivor- and Perpetrator-Family Memoirs - Irene KacandesPinpointing Evil: Nazi Family Photographs, Remediated - Brad PragerFelix Moeller's Harlan: Im Schatten von Jud Süss as Family Drama - David BathrickGoebbels's Fear and Legacy: Babelsberg and Its Berlin Street as Cinematic Memory Place - Tobias Ebbrecht-HartmannHitler in the Age of Irony: Timur Vermes's Er ist wieder da - Michael D. RichardsonRemembering Genocide in the Digital Age: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Rwanda - Karen RemmlerThe Memory Work of William Kentridge's Shadow Processions and His Drawings for Projection - Andreas HuyssenBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

A central concern of the volume is to 'to overcome [the] disciplinary divide and to provide a productive interface between the fields of German and Holocaust studies.'...Fifteen renowned scholars attempt to make good on this in six very different sections...To a great extent they succeed in doing so.