Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma [Paperback]

In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters memoirs, which record the all-too-human qualities of those who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis, show that the Holocaust cannot be used to neatly segregate lives into the categories of before and after. Clementis discussions of differences in social status, along with the persistence of antisemitism and patriarchal structures, support this point strongly, demonstrating the tenacity of traumaindividual, familial, and collectiveamong Jews in twentieth-century Europe.

FEDERICA K. CLEMENTI is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

Foreword by Shulamit Reinharz Acknowledgments Introduction: Remember What Amalek Did to You Edith Brucks Dead Letters Lupus in Fabula: The End of the Fairy Tale in Ruth Kl?gers Mother-Daughter Shoah Plot Auto Da F?: Sarah Kofmans Totemic Memoir Material Mothers: Milena Roth and the Kindertransports Legacy, Objets de M?moire From the Third Diaspora: Helena Janeczek and the Shoah Second Generations Disorders I Have to Save Myself with a Joke: Anne Frank and the Survival of Humor Epilogue: Remember What Zeus Did to You Notes Bibliography Index