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Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business,
an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and
fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our
contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood
independently of the powerful technological tools that aid and abet
in the search for traces of blood, belonging, and difference.In The
Genealogical Sublime, Julia Creet traces the histories of the
largest, longest-running, most lucrative, and most rapidly growing
genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the
industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA
technologies enable an obsessive completeness -- the desire to
gather all of the world's genealogical records in the interests of
life beyond death. Archival research and firsthand interviews with
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officials, key industry
players (including Ancestry.com founders and Family Search
executives), and professional and amateur family historians round
out this timely and essential study.
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies
construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the
context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of
essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions,
exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The
ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical
understanding across generations is examined through case studies
and theoretical approaches that underscore its mutability. Memory
and Migration is a truly interdisciplinary book featuring the work
of leading scholars from a variety of fields across the globe. The
essays are collaborative, successfully responding to the central
theme and expanding upon the findings of individual authors. A
groundbreaking contribution to an emerging field of study, Memory
and Migration provides valuable insight into the connections
between memory, place, and displacement.
H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first collection of
essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language
author H. G. Adler. Among the international scholars of German,
Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range
of Adler's legacy across genres are Adler's son, Jeremy Adler, and
Peter Filkins, translator of Adler's trilogy, Panorama (The
Journey). Together, the essays examine Adler's writing in relation
to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death
camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a
Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah. The book
carries the moral charge of Adler's work, moving beyond testimony
to a complex dialectic between fact and fiction, exploring Adler's
experiments with voice and the ethical work of literary engagement
with the Shoah.
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