num_pages: 192
description: In this series of interlinked essays, Geoffrey Hartman draws upon his pioneering interests in the collection of Holocaust survivor video testimony and his personal experience as a child of the Kindertransport to explore life and culture, meaning, and memory in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Taking up the anguished question of many survivors, â€œhas the world learned anything?â€, Hartman discusses issues of representation and ethics, the relations between first- and second-generation witnesses to the events, and how artists, scholars, and teachers have represented and transmitted these extreme experiences. How, he asks, do we convert our knowledge about the Holocaust into a thoughtful and potent understanding? Writing with his characteristic intelligence and grace, Hartman takes us from Bitburg to â€œ Schindlerâ€s List â€, from Vichy to battles over public memory. He also evokes his experience as a refugee in England in vivid detail and explains how as a writer on literature and culture he came gradually to focus on the Holocaust.
language: English
title: The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
titlecomplete: The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan