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Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

af Melvin Jules Bukiet (Redaktør)

Andre forfattere: Lea Aini (Bidragyder), David Albahari (Bidragyder), Tammie Bob (Bidragyder), Lily Brett (Bidragyder), Melvin Jules Bukiet (Bidragyder)25 mere, Leon De Winter (Bidragyder), Esther Dischereit (Bidragyder), Alcina Lubitch Domecq (Bidragyder), Barbara Finkelstein (Bidragyder), Alain Finkielkraut (Bidragyder), Carl Friedman (Bidragyder), Eva Hoffman (Bidragyder), Helena Janeczek (Bidragyder), Anne Karpf (Bidragyder), Alan Kaufman (Bidragyder), Mihály Kornis (Bidragyder), Savyon Liebrecht (Bidragyder), Gila Lustiger (Bidragyder), Sonia Pilcer (Bidragyder), Doron Rabinovici (Bidragyder), Henri Raczymow (Bidragyder), Victoria Redel (Bidragyder), Thane Rosenbaum (Bidragyder), Göran Rosenberg (Bidragyder), Ruth Knafo Setton (Bidragyder), Peter Singer (Bidragyder), Joseph Skibell (Bidragyder), Art Spiegelman (Bidragyder), JJ Steinfeld (Bidragyder), Val Vinokurov (Bidragyder)

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History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. Nothing Makes You Free considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of many German concentration camps: "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Makes You Free"). In the words of this groundbreaking anthology's introduction: "Other kids' parents didn't have numbers on their arms. Other kids' parents didn't talk about massacres as easily as baseball. Other kids' parents loved them, but never gazed at their offspring as miracles in the flesh....How do you deal with this responsibility? Well, if you were a writer, you wrote." Gathered here are writings of both fiction and nonfiction, ranging from farce to fantasy to brutal realism, from an international selection of writers, including Art Spiegelman, Eva Hoffman, Peter Singer, and Carl Friedman. Contributors: Lea Aini, David Albahari, Tammie Bob, Lilly Brett, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Leon De Winter, Esther Dischereit, Barbara Finkelstein, Alain Finkielkraut, Carl Friedman, Eva Hoffman, Helena Janaczek, Anne Karpf, Alan Kaufman, Ruth Knafo Setton, Mihaly Kornis, Savyon Liebrecht, Alcina Lubitch Domecq, Gila Lustiger, Sonia Pilcer, Doron Rabinovici, Henri Raczymov, Victoria Redel, Thane Rosenbaum, Goran Rosenberg, Peter Singer, Joseph Skibell, Art Spiegelman, J. J. Steinfeld, Val Vinokurov "Nothing Makes You Free is a wide-ranging, exuberant, and altogether powerful collection. A necessary reminder of the lingering effects of the Holocaust and of all the embers--in each generation--saved from the fire."--Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul "What happens to a generation of writers born after but indelibly shaped by the Holocaust? From the bitterly sardonic title of Bukiet's clear-eyed and refreshingly unsentimental collection to its last words, this volume will cause all to see this past in startlingly new and unexpected ways. This is certainly not their parent's Holocaust. But in all their immense variety, dexterity, oppressed imaginativeness, pain, and wonder, these writings show how even as a 'vicarious past,' the Holocaust continues to shape both inner and outer worlds of the survivors' offspring and now, by extension, our own as well."--James E. Young, author of At Memory's Edge and The Texture of Memory "A superb anthology...tenderness mixes with rage, sorrow with bitterness, in this first-rate gathering of pieces by those who refuse to forget."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A trenchant array...convincingly demonstrate[s] that the Second-Generation experience and the artistic vision growing from it is not merely a diluted version of the survivors' experience, but a distinct phenomenon and ethos of its own."--Miami Herald "An important book."--Booklist A groundbreaking collection of Holocaust literature by the heirs to the greatest evil of our time.… (mere)
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Melvin Jules Bukiet writes in his introduction to Nothing Makes You Free:

"How do you cope when the most important events in your life occurred before you were born? What does this do to your sense of time? Of authenticity? As they were ghosts in history, you’re a ghost in your own safe little suburban bedroom with cowboy lampshades. All you know is that you’ve received a tainted inheritance, secondhand knowledge of the worst event in history.“

Bukiet has compiled an anthology of writing (both fiction and non-fiction) by what he terms the “Second Generation” or 2G, that is, children of Holocaust Survivors. As someone who has read 2G works since Helen Epstein’s 1979 book “Children of the Holocaust” and obsessively searched out others such as Thane Rosenbaum, Art Spiegelman, Carl Friedman and Yossi Klein Halevi, I was eager to read this book.

The works of 2G writers are often angrier, more strident and more acerbic than those of their parents. There is a sense of desperate futility in that rage because many 2G’s were subconsciously attempting to “save” their parents retroactively – and there are definitely trends in how that was done – much of which is conveyed in the 2G literature. With a few exceptions, the parents, the actual survivors (including the ones who wrote about the Holocaust) seemed more sorrowful, sometimes bitter but seldom enraged. They were also determined, at least superficially, to establish themselves and to rebuild their lives. It was, I think their way of proving that they were the victors, not (only) the victims. The children, were living, breathing proof of their victory.

What I particularly liked about the anthology was its international scope - many of the included works are translations. Some of the pieces are quite moving, but on the whole, I do prefer these authors' full-length works; they tend to be more nuanced. Most of the pieces convey the underlying paranoia and suspicion imparted by the parents. That paradoxical combination of suspicion and their parent's determination to build (at least the facade of) a new and thoroughly ordinary life fundamentally defined who the 2G’s were and who they became. If there is a running theme in the works in this anthology it is growing up with this paradox. ( )
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Bukiet, Melvin JulesRedaktørprimær forfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Aini, LeaBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Albahari, DavidBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Bob, TammieBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Brett, LilyBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Bukiet, Melvin JulesBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
De Winter, LeonBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Dischereit, EstherBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Domecq, Alcina LubitchBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Finkelstein, BarbaraBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Finkielkraut, AlainBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Friedman, CarlBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Hoffman, EvaBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Janeczek, HelenaBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Karpf, AnneBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Kaufman, AlanBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Kornis, MihályBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Liebrecht, SavyonBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Lustiger, GilaBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Pilcer, SoniaBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Rabinovici, DoronBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Raczymow, HenriBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Redel, VictoriaBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Rosenbaum, ThaneBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Rosenberg, GöranBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Setton, Ruth KnafoBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Singer, PeterBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Skibell, JosephBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Spiegelman, ArtBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Steinfeld, JJBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
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History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. Nothing Makes You Free considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of many German concentration camps: "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Makes You Free"). In the words of this groundbreaking anthology's introduction: "Other kids' parents didn't have numbers on their arms. Other kids' parents didn't talk about massacres as easily as baseball. Other kids' parents loved them, but never gazed at their offspring as miracles in the flesh....How do you deal with this responsibility? Well, if you were a writer, you wrote." Gathered here are writings of both fiction and nonfiction, ranging from farce to fantasy to brutal realism, from an international selection of writers, including Art Spiegelman, Eva Hoffman, Peter Singer, and Carl Friedman. Contributors: Lea Aini, David Albahari, Tammie Bob, Lilly Brett, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Leon De Winter, Esther Dischereit, Barbara Finkelstein, Alain Finkielkraut, Carl Friedman, Eva Hoffman, Helena Janaczek, Anne Karpf, Alan Kaufman, Ruth Knafo Setton, Mihaly Kornis, Savyon Liebrecht, Alcina Lubitch Domecq, Gila Lustiger, Sonia Pilcer, Doron Rabinovici, Henri Raczymov, Victoria Redel, Thane Rosenbaum, Goran Rosenberg, Peter Singer, Joseph Skibell, Art Spiegelman, J. J. Steinfeld, Val Vinokurov "Nothing Makes You Free is a wide-ranging, exuberant, and altogether powerful collection. A necessary reminder of the lingering effects of the Holocaust and of all the embers--in each generation--saved from the fire."--Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul "What happens to a generation of writers born after but indelibly shaped by the Holocaust? From the bitterly sardonic title of Bukiet's clear-eyed and refreshingly unsentimental collection to its last words, this volume will cause all to see this past in startlingly new and unexpected ways. This is certainly not their parent's Holocaust. But in all their immense variety, dexterity, oppressed imaginativeness, pain, and wonder, these writings show how even as a 'vicarious past,' the Holocaust continues to shape both inner and outer worlds of the survivors' offspring and now, by extension, our own as well."--James E. Young, author of At Memory's Edge and The Texture of Memory "A superb anthology...tenderness mixes with rage, sorrow with bitterness, in this first-rate gathering of pieces by those who refuse to forget."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A trenchant array...convincingly demonstrate[s] that the Second-Generation experience and the artistic vision growing from it is not merely a diluted version of the survivors' experience, but a distinct phenomenon and ethos of its own."--Miami Herald "An important book."--Booklist A groundbreaking collection of Holocaust literature by the heirs to the greatest evil of our time.

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