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After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman (Hardcover, 2004)

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Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd ISBN 13: 9780436206221. Author: Eva Hoffman ISBN 10: 0436206226. Title: After Such Knowledge Item Condition: used item in a good condition. All used books sold by Book Fountain.

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As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors, and the second generation's responsibilities to its received memories? In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva Hoffman probes these questions through personal reflections and through broader explorations of the historical, psychological and moral implications of the second-generation experience. She examines the subterranean processes through which private memories of suffering are transmitted, and the more wilful strategems of collective memory. She traces the second-generations' trajectory from childhood intimations of horror, through its struggles between allegiance and autonomy, and its complex transactions with children of perpetrators. s she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the part to the newly problematic present, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-formed understa