Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Abiding Challenges
6. 1: Never Over, Over and Over 17
7. 2: The Voice of the Perpetrator, the Voices of the Survivors 33
8. Part II. The Holocaust in German Studies in the North American and the German Contexts
9. 3: Teaching Holocaust Memories as Part of “Germanistik” 55
10. 4: “Aber das ist alles Vergangenheitsbewältigung”: German Studies’ “Holocaust Bubble” and Its Literary Aftermath 80
11. Part III. Disentangling “German,” “Jewish,” and “Holocaust” Memory
12. 5: Epistemology of the Hyphen: German-Jewish-Holocaust Studies 105
13. 6: Writing before the Shoah, and Reading After: Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater? and Its Reception 120
14. 7: The Power of Paratext: Jewish Authorship and Testimonial Authority in Benjamin Stein’s Die Leinwand 141
15. Part IV. Descendant Narratives of Survival and Perpetration
16. 8: Identifying with the Victims in the Land of the Perpetrators: Iris Hanika’s Das Eigentliche and Kevin Vennemann’s Nahe Jedenew 157
17. 9: Laying Claim to Painful Truths in Survivor- and Perpetrator-Family Memoirs 178
18. 10: Pinpointing Evil: Nazi Family Photographs, Remediated 194
19. 11: Felix Moeller’s Harlan: Im Schatten von Jud Süss as Family Drama 214
20. Part V. Remediated Icons of Memory
21. 12: Goebbels’s Fear and Legacy: Babelsberg and Its Berlin Street as Cinematic Memory Place 227
22. 13: Hitler in the Age of Irony: Timur Vermes’s Er ist wieder da 249
23. Part VI. Holocaust Memory in Post-Holocaust Traumas
24. 14: Remembering Genocide in the Digital Age: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Rwanda 269
25. 15: The Memory Work of William Kentridge’s Shadow Processions and His Drawings for Projection 290
26. Contributors 305
27. Index 307