Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz

by Efraim Sicher (Editor)

The first multidisciplinary study of its kind, Breaking Crystal examines how members of the generation after the Holocaust in Israel and the United States confront through their own imaginations a traumatic event they have not directly experienced. Among the questions this groundbreaking work raises Whose memory is it? What will the collective memory of the Holocaust be in the twenty-first century, after the last survivors have given testimony? How in the aftermath of the Holocaust do we read and write literature and history? How is the memory inscribed in film and art? Is the appropriation of the Holocaust to political agendas a desecration of the six million Jews? What will the children of survivors pass on to the next generation?

378 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Westley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating collection of essays on how interpretations of the Holocaust has shaped Fiction and Art after World War II. Contains a particular thorough overview of the subject by the editor, Efraim Sicher. Would recommend to readers who have a general interest in the topic, also very useful for academic research.