This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media.
Ursula Reuter is director of Germania Judaica, K ln Library on the History of German Jewry..
She recently co-edited the volumes Life Writing: Lives in Focus of Praxis English and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives.
About the Author Bettina Hofmann teaches American studies at the University of Wuppertal.
By bringing together authors and scholars (often both) from different generations, countries, and languages, and focusing on Transgenerational and translational issues, this book presents multiple Perspectives on the subject of Holocaust memory, its impact, and its ongoing worldwide communication.
Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed.
It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period.
This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media