The Holocaust in Three Generations

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Three Generations ◽  
The Holocaust

Post-Holocaust Heritage of Trauma

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Liat Steir-Livny
Keyword(s):  
Three Generations ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Family Secret ◽  
Close Contacts

In the 1930s, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Eretz-Israel. Many of them kept on missing their former homeland and culture, while simultaneously despising Germany. This chapter analyzes the complex identity of these Jews, who had to leave Germany, but could not really detach themselves from the homeland that betrayed them, as reflected in the film The Flat (2011). In the film, Director Arnon Goldfinger reveals a family secret: his grandparents, Kurt and Gerda Tuchler, maintained close contacts with a Nazi couple, the Von Mildensteins, before and after the Holocaust. In a world of post-Holocaust, the analysis of the film tells the story of a transgenerational transfer of the trauma, and its different effect on three generations.

Ann Charney Dobryd

2002 ◽  
pp. 509-512
Author(s):  
Anna Petrov Bumble
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Post War

This chapter considers Ann Charney’s Dobryd, a memoir with a profound treatment of the aftermath of the Holocaust. Reported from a child’s point of view, the narrative provides a glimpse into the deepest workings of Charney’s psyche from the age of 3 until the age of 10. Though not a feminist fable, Dobryd is a story in which all the protagonists — Charney, her mother, and her aunt — are women who struggle and succeed on their own during the war and in the chaos of post-war Poland. Named after a Polish town near Lviv, the memoir encompasses the lives of members of three generations of a Jewish family as they and their community suffer through the horrors of the Holocaust. The story follows family members over a period of about forty years, penetrating deep into their inner world.

Bring Up the Bodies: The Classical Concept of Poetic Vividness and Its Reevaluation in Holocaust Literature

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Alan Itkin
Keyword(s):  
Classical Concept ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Peter Weiss ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
The Holocaust

The scenario of someone gazing at corpses plays an important role in the work of three authors representing three generations of Holocaust literature: Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald, and Jonathan Littell. Plato and Aristotle used this scenario to address a key question raised by the concept of poetic vividness, which they defined as putting a described scene before the reader's eyes: If literature shows us gruesome sights that we should not desire to see or enjoy seeing, does this make literature a form of voyeurism? Weiss, Sebald, and Littell evoke corpse gazing in the context of the Holocaust to answer this question and to articulate unique poetic philosophies that respond to the challenge to literature's validity constituted by the Holocaust. The diferent ways in which they use corpse gazing reveal how Holocaust literature has changed and continues to change as the era of survivor testimony wanes.

Book Review: Fear & Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 1191-1199
Author(s):  
Laurence J. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Three Generations ◽  
The Holocaust
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