German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

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This is an extremely rich and well-researched volume with a sometimes overwhelming abundance of information. I highly recommend it for making untranslated and sometimes unpublished texts accessible, inspiring readers to re-evaluate Germany's process of Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung and to pay attention to the long-term consequences of the Holocaust. * THE GERMAN QUARTERLY * A highly useful and important book for the emerging fields of German Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, comparative literature, and German Studies writ large. The mostly jargon-free and clear language makes it accessible for undergraduate student populations as well as lay readers. It should be required reading for scholars interested in post-1945 literature, history, international relations, and feminist studies. * MONATSHEFTE * Provokes us to historicize not only whose voices count but also which formal modes are rendered timely or untimely by a marketplace governed by national memory regimes. It further challenges us to question the criteria by which survivor voices and affective registers become admissible as Holocaust witnesses. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW * Unflinchingly facing the complex trauma of her authors, Finch's monograph offers a new interpretive method for incorporating overlooked post Holocaust testimony into scholarly conversation not only of Holocaust literature, but of the treatment of survivors more generally. ... Her analysis furthermore leads to the understanding that, just as the trauma captured in the pages of her authors is necessarily and always belated, so too is our attention to their texts, making her work all the more urgent in our current political climate. * STUDIES IN TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE *