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Inheriting the Holocaust
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Price (cloth): $35.95
Subtitle: A Second-Generation Memoir
Authors: Paula S. Fass
Subject: American Studies, Jewish Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5193-7
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4458-8
Pages: 210 pages
Publication Date: August 2011
Praise for Inheriting the Holocaust:
"The children of [Holocaust] survivors face the burden of the unspoken past; relatives discuss the past in whispers and fragments of conversation. Fass's remarkable memoir pieces together these fragments to tell a poignant, honest account of her parents' lives and families—their endurance, suffering, and loss. Highly recommended."
—Choice
"Paula Fass combines her skills as an historian, writer, and researcher with her position as a child of survivors with memories imparted by her parents to create an unusual memoir of being part of the 'second generation.' Her exceptional skills as a writer make this book more than the usual random memoir of information. The result is a touching family story supported by historical fact."
—Jewish Book World
Description:
Paula S. Fass explores her own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Her journey through time and relationships begins when she travels to Poland and locates birth certificates of the murdered siblings she never knew. Recovering her family's story provides Fass with ever more evidence for the perplexing reliability of memory, its winding path toward historical reconstruction, and a re-imagining of the role Jews played in Poland's past.
About the Author:
PAULA S. FASS is Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has written many books and articles, including Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization and Kidnapped: Child Abduction
in America.
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