Nostalgia and the Holocaust
TitleNostalgia and the Holocaust
Author
Call number809.93358/0034
Object number06931b
Place of publicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
PublisherRutgers University Press
Year of publication
2009
Physical descriptionpp41-58
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780813545899
NotesArticle from the book 'After representation?' pp41-58
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Description
Born in Cracow to Polish Jewish survivors and brought to Canada as an adolescent, Hoffman struggled to recognise herself in a new culture and a new language. In her memoir 'Lost in Translation', Horowitz traces intergenerational struggles as they are inflected by issues of immigration and by differences between Holocaust survivors and their children