Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Abiding Challenges

pp 17-18

1 - Never Over, Over and Over

pp 19-32

2 - The Voice of the Perpetrator, the Voices of the Survivors

pp 33-54

Part II - The Holocaust in German Studies in the North American and the German Contexts

pp 55-56

3 - Teaching Holocaust Memories as Part of “Germanistik”

pp 57-79

4 - “Aber das ist alles Vergangenheitsbewältigung”: German Studies’ “Holocaust Bubble” and Its Literary Aftermath

pp 80-104

Part III - Disentangling “German,” “Jewish,” and “Holocaust” Memory

pp 105-106

5 - Epistemology of the Hyphen: German-Jewish-Holocaust Studies

pp 107-119

6 - Writing before the Shoah, and Reading After: Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater? and Its Reception

pp 120-140

7 - The Power of Paratext: Jewish Authorship and Testimonial Authority in Benjamin Stein’s Die Leinwand

pp 141-156

Part IV - Descendant Narratives of Survival and Perpetration

pp 157-158

8 - Identifying with the Victims in the Land of the Perpetrators: Iris Hanika’s Das Eigentliche and Kevin Vennemann’s Nahe Jedenew

pp 159-177

9 - Laying Claim to Painful Truths in Survivor- and Perpetrator-Family Memoirs

pp 178-193

10 - Pinpointing Evil: Nazi Family Photographs, Remediated

pp 194-213

11 - Felix Moeller’s Harlan: Im Schatten von Jud Süss as Family Drama

pp 214-226

Part V - Remediated Icons of Memory

pp 227-228

12 - Goebbels’s Fear and Legacy: Babelsberg and Its Berlin Street as Cinematic Memory Place

pp 229-248

13 - Hitler in the Age of Irony: Timur Vermes’s Er ist wieder da

pp 249-268

Part VI - Holocaust Memory in Post-Holocaust Traumas

pp 269-270

14 - Remembering Genocide in the Digital Age: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Rwanda

pp 271-289

15 - The Memory Work of William Kentridge’s Shadow Processions and His Drawings for Projection

pp 290-304

Notes on the Contributors

pp 305-306

Index

pp 307-319