Representing the Shoah for the Twenty-First Century

Acknowledgements vii Introduction: Postmemory, Unsayability and the Return of the Auschwitz Code 1(178) Rohit Lentin 1. Categorial Murder, or: How to Remember the Holocaust 25(16) Zygmunt Bauman 2. 'The word passed away, as that world awakened': On the (Im)possibility of Representation 41(18) Heidrun Friese 3. Memory, Forgetting and Mourning Work: Deviant Narratives of Silence in the Gendered Relations between Israeli Zionism and the Shoah 59(18) Ronit Lentin 4. Entering the World of a Holocaust Victim: Schoolchildren Discuss a Ghetto Memoir - a Case Study 77(10) Janina Bauman 5. A Dual Perspective: Yaakov Shabtai and the Historian's Account of the Deportation to Mauritius 87(24) Dalia Ofer 6. Memory, Authenticity and Replication of the Shoah in Museums: Defensive Tools of the Nation 111(16) Andrea Tyndall 7. Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of the Holocaust Film Comedy 127(12) Yosefa Loshitzky 8. Voice, Silence and Memory: The Escape from Auschwitz and the Israeli Historiography 139(16) Ruth Linn 9. The Shoah and Marxism: Behind and Beyond Silence 155(24) Philip Spencer 10. Re-presenting the Shoah in Poland and Poland in the Shoah 179(16) Annamaria Orla-Bukowska 11. Denying the Holocaust where it Happened: Post-Communist East Central Europe and the Shoah 195(32) Michael Shafir 12. Evoking and Revoking Auschwitz: Kosovo, Remembrance and German National Identity 227(26) Christine Achinger 13. Exile, Daughterhood and Writing: Representing the Shoah as a Personal Memory 253(16) Esther Fuchs Notes on Contributors 269(4) Index 273