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- Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Brandeis University Press
- Series: Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry & HBI Series on Jewish Women
summary
In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters’ memoirs, which record the “all-too-human” qualities of those who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis, show that the Holocaust cannot be used to neatly segregate lives into the categories of before and after. Clementi’s discussions of differences in social status, along with the persistence of antisemitism and patriarchal structures, support this point strongly, demonstrating the tenacity of trauma—individual, familial, and collective—among Jews in twentieth-century Europe.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-9
- Table of Contents
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xx
- Introduction
- pp. 1-42
- 1 | Edith Bruck’s Dead Letters
- pp. 43-79
- 2 | Lupus in Fabula
- pp. 80-119
- 3 | Auto Da Fé
- pp. 120-152
- 4 | Material Mothers
- pp. 153-202
- 5 | From the Third Diaspora
- pp. 203-249
- 6 | “I Have to Save Myself with a Joke”
- pp. 250-292
- Bibliography
- pp. 343-360
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611684773
Related ISBN(s)
9781611684759, 9781611684766
MARC Record
OCLC
867137558
Pages
370
Launched on MUSE
2013-12-02
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013