Holocaust and Memory

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Holocaust and Memory (or more completely, Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences, an Investigation Based on Personal Narratives), originally published in 1996 in Polish and translated into English in 2001, is a book by Barbara Engelking and edited by Gunnar S. Paulsson. Engelking analyzes a series of Jewish survivors living in Poland to explore how their life under the Nazis impacted them. It was published in English by Leicester University Press. [1]

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Reception

Aviel Roshwald reviewed the book in European History Quarterly . [2] Reviews were also published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies , Shofar, and Ethnopolitics . [3] [4] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Fleming, Michael (2005). "Holocaust and memory". Ethnopolitics. 4 (1): 115–123. doi:10.1080/17449050500072457. S2CID   143854425.
  2. Roshwald, Aviel (2002). "Review Article: Accounting for Complicity: Recent Works on the Holocaust". European History Quarterly. 32 (4): 581–593. doi:10.1177/0269142002032004255. S2CID   141737639.
  3. Aleksiun, Natalia (2003-01-01). "Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and Its Consequences: An Investigation Based on Personal Narratives". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 17 (1): 163–167. doi:10.1093/hgs/17.1.163. ISSN   8756-6583.
  4. Patterson, David (2003-04-16). "Holocaust and Memory (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 21 (3): 180–182. doi:10.1353/sho.2003.0027. ISSN   1534-5165. S2CID   143458569.