Representing the Shoah for the Twenty-First Century

Despite Adorno's famous dictum, the memory of the Shoah features prominently in the cultural legacy of the 20th century and beyond. It has led to a proliferation of works of re-presentation and re-memorialization which have brought in their wake concerns about a "holocaust industry" and banalization. This volume sheds fresh light on some of the issues, such as the question of silence and denial, of the formation of contemporary identities - German, East European, Jewish or Israeli, the consequences of the legacy of the Shoah for survivors and for the "second generation," and the political, ideological, and professional implications of Shoah historiography.

Christine Achinger has worked as a freelance guide in the concentration camp memorial site Neuengamme and was involved in the social theoretical library project 'Hamburger Studienbibliothek' and the independent radio station FSK in Hamburg, concentrating on issues of critical theory, National Socialism and German politics of memory. She is currently writing a doctoral thesis at the University of Nottingham Anna Adam was born in 1963 in Siegen and studied in Dusseldorf and Hannover. She is a painter and stage designer who lives and works in Berlin Janina Bauman is a writer and translator. Having survived the Holocaust in Warsaw, she left Poland in 1968 and now lives in Leeds, U.K. and writes in English and Polish Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds and Warsaw Heidrun Friese, European University Institute, Berlin and Florence has published widely on the social constructions of time and the images of history, the anthropology of the sciences and on social imagination Esther Fuchs is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was born in Israel to survivors of the Holocaust and has published poetry in Hebrew on this topic Ronit Lentin is director of the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin Ruth Linn is a Professor of Counselling Psychology and Human Development and the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel Yosefa Loshitzky is a Visiting Fellow at the University of London Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies in the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a social anthropologist in the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow Michael Shafir has been a Senior Regional Specialist on Central and Southeast Europe with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague since March 1997 Philip Spencer is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where he teaches politics Andrea Tyndall received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton