Unwanted legacies : sharing the burden of post-genocide generations
TitleUnwanted legacies : sharing the burden of post-genocide generations
Call number940.53180922/0107
Object number08973
Place of publicationLubbock, Texas
PublisherTexas Tech University Press
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionxlii,410p.,index
MaterialBook
Series titleModern Jewish History
ISBN9780896728356
Description
What family reactions do they face as they seek to begin the act of sitting across from each other and facing their legacies? For more than two decades, Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, whose music inspired Adolf Hitler and whose family helped the Nazis rise to power, and Abraham J. Peck, the son of two survivors whose entire families were murdered in the Holocaust, have been engaged in a unique and often torturous discussion on the German-Jewish relationship after the Shoah. Rejecting the notion that they are either victims or perpetrators, both authors examine the "unwanted legacies" they inherited and have had to confront and overcome