Translated Memories

Bettina Hofmann teaches American Studies at the University of Wuppertal. She recently edited the volume Life Writing: Lives in Focus of Praxis Englisch and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives.Ursula Reuter is currently director of Germania Judaica, Köln Library on the History of German Jewry.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: On Taking Renuka to Her First Concert Anne RanasingheIntroductionBettina Hofmann and Ursula ReuterPart ILanguage and Memory01The Tongue in ExileCarol Ascher02Translating Oral Memory and Visual Media in Ida Fink’s “Traces”Daniel Feldman03Lies of Ulysses in the Forgotten Camps: French Accounts by Mittelbau-Dora Survivors and Their Uses in Memory PoliticsBruno Arich-Gerz04French Canada as a Site of Holocaust Representation Rebecca MargolisPart IIMaking Sense of the Parents’ Holocaust History05Intimate Horror: Memorializing my Mother’s HolocaustDoron Ben-Atar06Invisible Ink: The Limits of RecoveryJulia Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz07The Impact of the Shoah on One Scholar’s Journey: An Autobiographical ReflectionSteven Leonard Jacobs08Against Forgetting: An Essay in Three PartsElizabeth RosnerPart III1.5 Generation09Hebrew as “Remedy” to the Shoah in Dan Pagis’ PoetryFederico Dal Bo10Vicarious Witnesses and Translation in Kindertransport PoetryChristoph Houswitschka11Between Grief and CelebrationNaomi Shmuel12The Girl—1943: on reading Karen GershonJoseph SwannPart IVObjects and What to Make of Them13Coming to GermanRichard Aronowitz14Translating Memory: The Lagertagebuch kept by Isy Aronowitz (1940-43) and Five Amber Beads (2006) by Richard AronowitzChristoph Heyl15Found Objects: The Legacy of Third-Generation Holocaust MemoryVictoria Aarons16Why Don’t You Talk to Me? Transmissional Objects in the Works of Gila Lustiger and Nicole KraussMaria Roca Lizarazu17Pebbles on the Trail of Time: Peter Wortsman’s and Louise Steinman’s TraveloguesBettina HofmannPart VMembers of the Second and Third Generation in Quest of Their Identity18Attempting to Remember What They Never Knew: The Identity Quest of Second and Third Generation Holocaust Survivors as Reflected in Recent Israeli DocumentaryYael Munk19Beyond Age and Nationality: Transgenerational and Transnational Memories in Robert Schindel’s Gebürtig and Der KalteLilian Gergely20Translating Silence: Non-Memory, Lost Memory and Holocaust LiteratureSue Lieberman21Narratives beyond Words: Notes on the Embodiment of Trauma and Cultural/Religious Jewishness among Third Generation Jews in GermanyDani Kranz22Epilogue: The Fairy Tale of the Blessed MealPeter WortsmanAbout the Contributors