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This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in
literature, film, and other media. 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. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs
of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors
discussed. 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.
This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in
literature, film, and other media. 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. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs
of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors
discussed. By bringing together authors and scholars (often both)
from different generations, countries, and languages, and focusing
on transgenerational and translational issues, the volume presents
multiple perspectives on the subject of Holocaust memory, its
impact, and its ongoing worldwide communication.
The Federalists left a paradoxical legacy. They successfully
established the domestic and international legitimacy of the new
American government, brought order to the nation's finances, and
encouraged western development. Yet they were swept out of national
power by the Jefferson revolution in 1800, and they stubbornly
refused to adjust to the emerging democratic politics. The essays
in this volume demonstrate that American political culture was
fashioned in a dialogue between Federalists and Jeffersonians. They
portray an active Federalist coalition that offered a vibrant
intellectual and political alternative throughout the era of the
early republic. Cutting across boundaries of region, culture, race,
gender, and class, Federalists struggled with the problems of
nation building, national identity, and economic development.
These essays demonstrate that American political culture was
fashioned in a dialogue between Federalists and Jeffersonians. They
portray an active Federalist coalition that offered a vibrant
intellectual and political alternative throughout the era of the
early republic. Cutting across boundaries of region, culture, race,
gender, and class, Federalists struggled with the problems of
nation building, national identity, and economic development.
Roma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family
to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. The Holocaust
exerted a dark pressure on all of their lives but was never openly
discussed. It was only when her granddaughter insisted on hearing
the whole truth, with a directness partly generational, that Mrs.
Ben-Atar agreed to tell her story. What Time and Sadness Spared is
a journey of both loss and endurance, moving with shocking speed
from a carefree adolescence in upper-middle-class Warsaw to the
horrors of the Final Solution. The young girl sees her neighborhood
transformed into a ghetto populated by skeletal figures both alive
and dead. Unbelievably, things only grow worse as this ruin gives
way to the death factories of Majdanek and Auschwitz and the death
marches of 1945. Life in the camps changes her in less than a day,
as if ""the person in my body was a stranger I had never met."" Her
only consolation is to lie on her wooden bunk, no mattress, and
speak to the soul of her mother, who, like virtually her entire
family, had already been swept away. Roma must summon astonishing
powers of adaptation simply to survive, bringing her finally
through the wreckage of postwar Europe and to an entirely new life
in Israel. In this unique family collaboration Roma Ben-Atar's son
Doron, a historian who brings with him fluency in psychoanalysis,
contributes through his commentary an awareness of the difficulties
presented by historical narrative and memory. A visitor to the
much-changed sites in which his mother grew up and was interned by
the Nazis, he also voices the perspective of the survivors'
children and their ambivalence over being ""protected"" from this
past. As the generation that endured the camps passes from this
world, What Time and Sadness Spared illustrates with particular
urgency the historical responsibilities of the survivors'
descendants, who must become the new vessels for a story that will
not remain alive on its own but demands our courage and curiosity.
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